MR-031 Model & system behaviour Both scope

Impersonation, deepfakes and synthetic media

The system is used to impersonate people via deepfakes, voice cloning, or synthetic identities, or to misuse a person's likeness.

Risk family: Model & system behaviour
MIT domain: 4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
MIT subdomain: 4.3 > Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
AI type: GPAI
Scope: Both
Source standard: MIT AI Risk Repository v4

Provenance

Source standard

MIT AI Risk Repository v4

Source frameworks

21 source framework citation keys

Abercrombie2024, Cunha2023, EPIC2023, Ferrara2023, G'sell2024, Gabriel2024, Gipiškis2024, Habbal2024, Hagendorff2024, Hogenhout2021, IBM2025, Kilian2023, Li2025, Marchal2024, Nah2023, Sherman2023, Shevlane2023, Tse2025, Uuk2025, Weidinger2021, Weidinger2023

ISO/IEC references

23894 obj A.10, A.8; src 7 | 42001 ctrl A.9.4

EU AI Act articles

Art. 50(4)

Framework crosswalk

Every framework item mapped to this risk. Items marked partial overlap only in part; definitions appear on hover where the source licence permits.

Sourcesframeworks that contributed to the register

ISO 238942

A.10 ISO/IEC 23894 Annex A A.10
A.8 ISO/IEC 23894 Annex A A.8

ISO 420011

A.9.4 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.9.4

EU AI Act1

Art. 50(4)

MITRE ATLAS2

Expanded into this risk’s technique sub-risks.

Cross-checksframeworks mapped in to test coverage

IBM1

ibm-nonconsensual-use Nonconsensual use

Cisco1

AISubtech-3.1.1 Identity Obfuscation partial

NIST GenAI1

GENAI.8 Information Integrity

Sub-risks (2)

Technique-level decompositions of this risk, each anchored to the MITRE ATLAS technique it derives from.

MR-031.1

Impersonation of trusted parties

The system is used to impersonate a trusted person or organization to deceive targets.

MITRE ATLAS technique: AML.T0073 Impersonation

MR-031.2

Deepfake generation using the deployed system

Generative capability is used to produce synthetic media for deception, fraud, or reputational harm.

MITRE ATLAS technique: AML.T0088 Generate Deepfakes

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