Description: YouTube faced a surge of AI-generated fake news targeting Black celebrities, including fake narratives about Sean “Diddy” Combs and others. These videos, blending AI-generated and manipulated media, amassed millions of views, challenging content moderation efforts and highlighting the spread of disinformation.
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View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown generative AI tools creators and Unknown AI text-to-speech technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Variety of YouTube content creators, which harmed Steve Harvey , Sean “Diddy” Combs , General public , Denzel Washington , Black celebrities and Bishop T.D. Jakes.
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nbcnews.com · 2024
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YouTube videos using a mix of artificial intelligence-generated and manipulated media to create fake content have flooded the platform with salacious disinformation about dozens of Black celebrities, including rapper and record executive Se…
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A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
