Purportedly AI-Generated 'Eric Langford' Missing Boy Scout Hoax Circulating Across Multiple Social Media Platforms
Date: 2025-12-13
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Generative Ai Developers, Image Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Files
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1330: Purportedly AI-Generated 'Eric Langford' Missing Boy Scout Hoax Circulating Across Multiple Social Media Platforms. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Generative Ai Developers, Image Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Files. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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