The people onscreen are fake. The disinformation is real.
Source: NYT
In one video, a news anchor with perfectly combed dark hair and a stubbly beard outlined what he saw as the United States' shameful lack of action against gun violence.
In another video, a female news anchor heralded China's role in geopolitical relations at an international summit meeting.
But something was off. Their voices were stilted and failed to sync with the movement of their mouths. Their faces had a pixelated, video-game quality and their hair appeared unnaturally plastered to the head. The captions were filled with grammatical mistakes.
The two broadcasters, purportedly anchors for a news outlet called Wolf News, are not real people. They are computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software. And late last year, videos of them were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance of "deepfake" video technology being used to create fictitious people as part of a state-aligned information campaign.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/artificial-intelligence-training-deepfake.html
Facebook, Twitter and other social media need to ban this deep fake technology, and the US urgently needs to pass regulations BEFORE the quality improves, not after.
In 2020 Facebook said it would ban deep fakes. Have they changed their policy, or did they not detect this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/facebook-says-it-will-ban-deepfakes.html
WASHINGTON — Facebook says it will ban videos that are heavily manipulated by artificial intelligence, the latest in a string of changes by the company to combat the flow of false information on its site.
A company executive said in a blog post late Monday that the social network would remove videos, often called deepfakes, that artificial intelligence has altered in ways that “would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say.” The videos will also be banned in ads.
The policy will have a limited effect on slowing the spread of false videos, since the vast majority are edited in more traditional ways: cutting out context or changing the order of words. The policy will not extend to those videos, or to parody or satire, said the executive, Monika Bickert.
Ms. Bickert said all videos posted would still be subject to Facebook’s system for fact-checking potentially deceptive content. Content that is found to be factually incorrect appears less prominently on the site’s news feed and is labeled false.
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Better watch Hellboy and XMen a few more times? Nah. 
