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Colombia: Senator Isabel Zuleta says a viral AI-made video cloned her face and voice in the Senate chamber to show her swearing about a nickname; she asks the Fiscalía to investigate identity impersonation

By 26 September 2026 a video was circulating on social media appearing to show Senator Isabel Zuleta, in the Senate chamber, reacting with obscene language to being called 'cabeza de brócoli'. Zuleta said on X that it was a fake created with AI using her face, voice and the Senate setting, and that it sought to distort her work in opposition. The video drew a wave of criticism and attacks as users shared it as real, and several regional sites ran it as authentic. She asked the Fiscalía General de la Nación to investigate identity impersonation and said she would report the accounts spreading it. Her party, the Pacto Histórico, rejected the video and asked the Fiscalía, the Police and the National Electoral Council to investigate coordinated attacks on opposition congresswomen.

AI system
Unidentified video tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
26 September 2026
Event location
Colombia
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Reputational Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Work · Everyday life
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 2 underlying accounts
3 claims: 3 reported. 3 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Unnamed AI tool used to clone her face and voice in a video (per the senator)

What Happened

La Razón.co reports that Zuleta asked the Fiscalía General de la Nación to investigate identity impersonation after a video fabricated with AI replicated her face, voice and the Senate chamber to attribute to her words she never said; the video went viral with headlines claiming she reacted with foul language to comments about a nickname, and later verifications marked it as AI-generated. It quotes her X post that a fake video created with AI was circulating using her face, voice and the Senate setting, her attribution of the nickname to the political right, and her statement that she would report every account reproducing it; several regional and digital sites ran the montage as authentic. Chicanoticias (26 September 2026) reports that the manipulated video generated a wave of criticism and attacks as many users shared it as a real statement. Infobae (28 September 2026) reports the Pacto Histórico communiqué rejecting the AI-manipulated video impersonating Zuleta and describing coordinated misogynistic attacks on opposition congresswomen.

Reported harm

An AI-made video attributing obscene statements to a senator circulated as authentic and drew online attacks on her; she asked prosecutors to investigate (Zuleta via La Razón.co and Chicanoticias).

Outcome

Ongoing

Zuleta asked the Fiscalía to investigate identity impersonation and announced complaints against accounts sharing the video (La Razón.co; Chicanoticias). The Pacto Histórico asked the Fiscalía, the Police and the National Electoral Council to investigate (Infobae). No investigative step is reported.

What remains unknown

  • Who made the video and with what tool.
  • The date it first appeared.
  • Whether the Fiscalía opened an investigation.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Zuleta says the video was created with AI using her face, voice and the Senate setting (La Razón.co; Chicanoticias), and La Razón.co reports that verifications labelled it AI-generated. The tool and creator are not identified.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported A video made with AI that replicated Senator Isabel Zuleta's face, voice and the Senate chamber, showing her reacting with obscene language to a nickname, went viral on social media and was shared as if authentic.

Causal attribution. Her statement that the video is AI-made; La Razón reports that later verifications labelled it AI-generated content.

  • larazon.co(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'Un video falso creado con IA circula por redes usando mi rostro, mis voz y el escenario del @SenadoGovCo'
  • chicanoticias.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'En la pieza manipulada, Zuleta supuestamente reclamaba de manera alterada que dejaran de llamarla “cabeza de brócoli”. El contenido generó una ola de críticas y ataques en redes sociales, luego de que numerosos usuarios lo compartieran como si se tratara de una declaración real.'
Reported Zuleta asked the Fiscalía General de la Nación to investigate identity impersonation and said she would report the accounts that spread the video.

Causal attribution. Her announced legal steps; no investigation outcome is reported.

  • larazon.co(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'La senadora Isabel Zuleta pidió a la Fiscalía General de la Nación investigar una suplantación de identidad tras la circulación de un video fabricado con inteligencia artificial'
  • chicanoticias.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'La legisladora también anunció que denunciará a las cuentas que difundieron el contenido y pidió a la Fiscalía investigar la presunta suplantación de identidad.'
Reported Her party, the Pacto Histórico, rejected the circulation of the AI-manipulated video impersonating her and asked the Fiscalía, the Police and the National Electoral Council to investigate coordinated online attacks on opposition congresswomen.

Causal attribution. Party communiqué; the claimed coordination is its allegation.

  • infobae.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'En un comunicado, el movimiento político y la bancada del Congreso rechazaron la circulación de un video manipulado con inteligencia artificial en el que, según afirmaron, se suplanta la identidad de Isabel Zuleta y se le atribuyen declaraciones que nunca realizó.'
  • infobae.com(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'La colectividad solicitó a la Fiscalía, la Policía y el Consejo Nacional Electoral determinar el origen de estas acciones y establecer si existen recursos, estructuras políticas o infraestructura estatal vinculados con su difusión'

Sources

3 sources inspected, from 2 underlying accounts. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-29 (La Razón.co, 26 September 2026, per the page's article:published_time metadata); quotes her X post. Researcher translation. Applies to s1.

Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-29 (Chicanoticias, 26 September 2026). Researcher translation. Applies to s2.

Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-29 (Infobae, 28 September 2026); reports the Pacto Histórico communiqué. Researcher translation. Applies to s3.

Event countries: Colombia. Affected-person countries: Colombia. Court countries: Unknown.

Zuleta is a Colombian senator; the video depicts the Colombian Senate and her complaint was addressed to Colombia's Fiscalía (La Razón.co). Where the video was made is not stated.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-29: Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (an AI-made video impersonating a named senator, attributing words she denies saying, circulated as authentic). The account rests on her statements and her party's communiqué; she is a public figure. The claimed political motive is recorded as her allegation.

People described

Isabel Zuleta, senator of the Republic of Colombia (Pacto Histórico)

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One depicted person, Senator Zuleta. Other congresswomen named in the party communiqué are not reported as depicted in this video and are not counted. Exact 1.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#deepfakes#political-deepfake#impersonation#colombia#senate#women-in-politics

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Colombia: Senator Isabel Zuleta says a viral AI-made video cloned her face and voice in the Senate chamber to show her swearing about a nickname; she asks the Fiscalía to investigate identity impersonation. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-colombia-senator-isabel-zuleta-ai-video-impersonation

BibTeX

@misc{2026_colombia_senator_isabel_zuleta_ai_video_impersonation,
  title = {Colombia: Senator Isabel Zuleta says a viral AI-made video cloned her face and voice in the Senate chamber to show her swearing about a nickname; she asks the Fiscalía to investigate identity impersonation},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-colombia-senator-isabel-zuleta-ai-video-impersonation}
}

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