Whirlpool Reportedly Used AI-Altered Footage of North Carolina State Senator DeAndrea Salvador in Brazilian Advertisement
Date: 2025-06-01
Affected: Consul, Deepfake Technology Developers, Dm9, Omnicom Group, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Whirlpool
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1304: Whirlpool Reportedly Used AI-Altered Footage of North Carolina State Senator DeAndrea Salvador in Brazilian Advertisement. Alleged deployer/developer: Consul, Deepfake Technology Developers, Dm9, Omnicom Group, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Whirlpool. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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