Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso
Date: 2025-05-23
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Pro Traore Information Ecosystem, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Actors
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1092: Purported AI-Generated Video Portrays Pope Leo XIV Addressing Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Pro Traore Information Ecosystem, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Actors. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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