Malaysia minister, aide gay sex 'deepfake'
A gay sex video allegedly featuring Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysia's Minister of Economic Affairs, and Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz , a rival minister’s 27-year-old aide circulated on WhatsApp and more widely, leading to a political controversy, calls for resignations, and a police investigation. Aziz swore that the video was real, but the minister and Prime Minister dismissed it as a deepfake, leading Aziz to post a ' confession' to Facebook a few hours later . As Intelligencer noted , the fact that the video may have been a deepfake may have allowed the minister to escape the serious legal consequences he may otherwise expect in a socially conservative country. ' Nowadays you can produce all kinds of pictures if you are clever enough, ' then Malay sia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad retorted . ' One day you may also see my picture like that. It would be very funny. ' Deepfake pornography Deepfake pornography, or simply fake pornography, is a type of synthetic pornography that is created via altering already-existing photographs or video by applying deepfake technology to the images of the participants. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Operator: Developer: Country: Malaysia Sector: Politics Purpose: Smear/discredit Technology: Deepfake - video; Machine learning Issue: Ethics/values; Mis/disinformation
- Date it happened
- 2016-06-01
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