Deepfake video of a woman ‘coming back’ 13 years after her disappearance sparks outrage: An AI-generated clip shows a 19-year-old who disappeared and prompts viewers to speculate about what happened to her
- The one-minute clip posted to TikTok shows the missing Iwona WIeczorek
A deep fake video of a Polish woman who has been missing for more than a decade has sparked outrage after appearing on social media.
The one-minute clip posted to TikTok shows missing Iwona WIeczorek who disappeared in 2010 after leaving a disco in the early morning hours.
Looking straight at the camera, the AI-generated woman begins by saying, “Don’t you recognize me? I am Iwona Wieczorek. Today I tell you my story.’
In a case that gripped Poland, Wieczorek had been out with friends in the seaside town of Sopot.
She decided to leave early and was last seen on CCTV near the house she shared with her parents.
A deep fake video of a woman who has been missing for more than a decade has sparked outrage after she appeared on social media
The one-minute clip posted to TikTok shows missing Iwona WIeczorek who disappeared in 2010 after leaving a disco in the early morning hours
In the deepfake video, the woman says, “In July 2010, we decided to go to a party at the Dream Club in Sopot with some friends. “I didn’t have a good time last night. I had a fight with my friends
In the deepfake video, the woman says, “In July 2010, we decided to go to a party at the Dream Club in Sopot with some friends.
“I didn’t have a good time last night. I had a fight with my friends.
‘Around 2:50 pm I left the club and went to the boulevards by the sea. I went home.
“However, I never made it home because I disappeared under unexplained circumstances.”
The video ends with the woman asking internet users to post their theories about what might have happened to her.
In the deepfake video, the woman says, “In July 2010, we decided to go to a party at the Dream Club in Sopot with some friends. “I didn’t have a good time last night. I had a fight with my friends. ‘Around 2:50 pm I left the club and went to the boulevards by the sea. I went home. “However, I never made it home because I had disappeared under unexplained circumstances.
The one-minute clip posted to TikTok shows missing Iwona WIeczorek who disappeared in 2010 after leaving a disco in the early morning hours
She decided to leave early and was last seen on CCTV near the house she shared with her parents
Wieczorek’s distraught mother told the newspaper Fakt: ‘Why would anyone make fun of a human tragedy?!
“Why is she playing with my daughter’s image and family tragedy.”
Meanwhile, readers have criticized the video for being tasteless, stating, “A disgusting and cruel treatment of the missing woman’s image and another blow to her mother.”
Another said: ‘Extreme idiocy to think of such a thing!
“Anyway, what’s the point of someone inventing such sick things and using her picture? Is it supposed to make her loved ones happy?’
The mystery of what happened to the then 19-year-old is one of the most high-profile missing persons cases in the country.