AI Incident Database - Incident 1122
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
Records using this source
- deepfake-technology-developers
entity | 4 July 2026 | 70%
deepfake-technology-developers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- emotionally-vulnerable-individuals
entity | 4 July 2026 | 70%
emotionally-vulnerable-individuals - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- scammers
entity | 4 July 2026 | 70%
scammers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers
entity | 4 July 2026 | 70%
synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- elon-musk
entity | 11 May 2026 | 70%
elon-musk - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- mark-zuckerberg
entity | 3 Aug 2025 | 70%
mark-zuckerberg - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- ellie-goulding
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
ellie-goulding - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- general-public-of-southampton-united-kingdom
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
general-public-of-southampton-united-kingdom - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- general-public-of-united-kingdom
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
general-public-of-united-kingdom - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- jennifer-aniston
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
jennifer-aniston - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- paul-davis
entity | 8 July 2025 | 70%
paul-davis - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Reportedly Sustained Multi-Celebrity Deepfake Persona Scam Targeting Vulnerable Southampton Resident
event | 8 July 2025 | 82%
Over about five months in 2025, Paul Davis, a Southampton, UK man, reports that he was repeatedly targeted by scammers using purported deepfake videos and images of celebrities including Jennifer Aniston, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Ellie Goulding. The perpetrators allegedly rotated personas to sustain a romance and prize scam, extracting £200 in gift cards. This case suggests a new shift from one-off celebrity deepfakes to persistent, multi-persona targeting of a single…