Synthetic Nostalgia: Deepfake Resurrections of Dictators and the Politics of Memory

• In Event: Media, Information, and Democracy

Brief Overview

This study examines how AI-generated deepfakes of deceased dictators shape political attitudes in contemporary democracies, drawing on a survey experiment in South Korea featuring AI-generated videos of former dictator Park Chung-hee.

Authors

• Hyein Ko, Case Western Reserve University

• Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, University of North Texas