2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
- publishedAt:
Not provided→ 2026-04-03T00:00:00.000Z
SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Lower Saxony CDU Employee Allegedly Shared Sexualized Purported Deepfake of Colleague in Internal WhatsApp Group
A senior employee of the CDU parliamentary faction in Lower Saxony allegedly posted a purportedly AI-generated sexualized deepfake of a female colleague in an internal WhatsApp group. Prosecutors later said the video appeared to be an AI montage created by inserting a real image of the woman into a bikini-dance clip. The employee was reportedly later dismissed.
Read original source ↗ Open in workspace
- recordType
- incident-report
- evidenceStatus
- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-04-03T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
Observed changes
AIIC observation times, not verified publisher revision times. Up to eight recent revisions.