Alleged Use of Purportedly AI-Generated and Manipulated Media to Misrepresent Candidates and Disrupt Turkey's 2023 Presidential Election
Description
During Turkey's 2023 presidential election, reportedly manipulated and allegedly AI-generated videos, audio, and images were used to smear candidates, purportedly link opposition figures to terrorist groups, and circulate a purported sex tape that reportedly contributed to presidential candidate Muharrem İnce’s withdrawal. These incidents reportedly misled voters, disrupted campaigning, and altered the electoral field.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- supporters-of-recep-tayyip-erdogan
- government-of-russia-aligned-actors
Alleged Developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
- synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers
- generative-ai-developers
Harmed Parties
- muharrem-ince
- kemal-kilicdaroglu
- general-public
- general-public-of-turkey
- epistemic-integrity
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
- democratic-integrity
Classification
Risk Domain
Malicious Actors & MisuseRisk Subdomain
4.1. Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
MIT Risk Profile
Source
Related Incidents (Malicious Actors & Misuse)
View all →Female Students at Westfield High School in New Jersey Reportedly Targeted with Deepfake Nudes
Oct 2023
ChatGPT Was Alleged to Have Aided Planning of Florida State University Mass Shooting
Apr 2025
Ongoing Purported AI-Assisted Identity Fraud Enables Unauthorized Access to Western Companies by North Korean IT Workers
Research Papers on This Topic
How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them: Rethinking Persuasion to Challenge AI Safety by Humanizing LLMs
AgentHarm: A Benchmark for Measuring Harmfulness of LLM Agents
Regulating ChatGPT and other Large Generative AI Models
Great, Now Write an Article About That: The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack