When voters went to the polls to elect Ireland’s next president, some of them may have been surprised to see Catherine Connolly’s name on the ballot.

Axar.az informs via Politico, just days before, a deepfake video showing the eventual winner withdrawing from the race had circulated, imitating Connolly and multiple journalists within its fake reality.

In the Netherlands, two far-right members of parliament were found to be behind a Facebook page promoting deepfake images of their left-wing rival ahead of Sunday’s tight election, prompting apologies and recrimination.

This was the week that artificial intelligence hit two European electoral campaigns in a major way and exposed significant gaps in ongoing efforts to curb undue influence on voters.

There are concerns about what that means for European politics and for its voters, as politicians and regulators wake up to the arrival of AI-generated text and video content that has been part of U.S. political life for some time.