Purported Deepfake Impersonation of Elon Musk Used to Promote Fraudulent '17-Hour' Diabetes Treatment Claims
Date: 2025-12-27
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Elon Musk
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1317: Purported Deepfake Impersonation of Elon Musk Used to Promote Fraudulent '17-Hour' Diabetes Treatment Claims. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Scammers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Scammers Impersonating Elon Musk. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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