Former Argentine President and right-wing PRO party leader Mauricio Macri has denounced a deepfake artificial intelligence video that spread on social media, which falsely depicted him encouraging the public to vote for presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni in the Buenos Aires City legislative elections.

Macri, who was president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019, took to his own social media channels to condemn the video, calling the matter “an attempt at electoral fraud”.

“Hours before the election, a crude video generated with artificial intelligence was published on X,” he said in the statement. “In [the video], a credible recreation of me is shown making statements that I never made about our list.”

A horas de la elección, un burdo video generado con inteligencia artificial fue publicado en X. En él, se muestra una recreación verosímil de mi persona haciendo........

© Buenos Aires Herald