- A 1-minute clip posted on TikTok shows the missing Iwona WIeczorek
A deepfake video of a Polish woman who has been missing for more than a decade has surfaced on social media, sparking outrage.
A one-minute clip posted on TikTok shows the missing Iwona WIeczorek, who disappeared after leaving a disco early in the morning in 2010.
Looking directly at the camera, the AI-generated woman begins to say, “Don’t you recognize me?” I’m Iwona Weecholek. Let me tell you my story today.
In the incident that hit Poland, Wieczorek was out clubbing with friends at the seaside resort of Sopot.
Deciding to leave early, she was last seen on CCTV near the house she shared with her parents.
In the deepfake video, the woman said:
“Last night didn’t work out. I got into an argument with a friend.
“I left the club around 2:50 and went out onto the seaside boulevard. I went home.
“However, he never returned home as he disappeared under unexplained circumstances.”
The video ends with the woman asking an internet user to post a theory about what happened to her.
Wieczorek’s distraught mother told Fakt newspaper:
“Why is she playing with my daughter’s image and family tragedy?”
Meanwhile, readers slammed the video for being tasteless, with one calling it “a disgusting cruel treatment of the missing woman’s image and another blow to her mother.”
Another said, “It’s very silly to come up with such a thing!
“What is the purpose of inventing such a disgusting thing and using a picture of yourself??” Is it supposed to make her loved one happy??”
The mystery of what happened to the 19-year-old at the time is one of the country’s most high-profile missing person cases.
