Deeppakes are Politics shake upWith both politicians and their supporters, a-generated videos turn to make arguments, attack their opponents and, even worse, Share misinformation. Powerful and accessible tools for video now change the standards about whether and how these fake content can be used.
Allies of the Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte divided a viral video with from AI-generated characters last week to defend the competitive politician before an impending office. The video contained two generated pupils who criticized the office procedure as “politically motivatedAnd an example of “selective” justice.
The video was soon exposed as a “Deeppake” and the presidential palace press claire Castro popped the politicians To share disinformation and false news.
The Vice President took a different attack. Reporter tell That she thought it was okay to share a video with AI-generated video as long as no profit was made. Senator Ronald Dela Rosa, who also shared the video defended his actions: “Even if it’s AI … I agree with the point,” he argued loudly, so AFP.
Another viral video played an older woman with a-generated woman who took an attitude to the introduction.
This political back and forth is the latest development in Sara Duterte’s office saga. The daughter of the former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte was accused Corruption, abuse of public funds and threaten to murder previous allies and The current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. remove from Office and forbidden for life.
On June 10th, the Filipino Senate referred the Duterte Office to the Dutente to the country’s House of Representatives within hours to convene a legal proceedings and to ask for clarification on its constitutionality. The lower body voted for the indictment Dueterte at the beginning of February.
The public prosecutor’s office in the house on Friday demanded the Senate Go on with the process.
It is not the first time that Deepfakes appeared in Filipino politics. Last year a video of AI-generated President Marcos who occupies illegal drugs Was viral. The national police against the criminal police are Currently examine Another depth of Marcos, which promotes for an online trading platform.
Political campaigns include clearly generated content. The Trump campaign common pictures by the candidate who drives a lion and supported by Taylor Swift before the presidential election of last year; Trump administration officials continue to AI-generated cartoons on social media to score political points.
AI-generated videos were in elections across Asia, including in PakistanPresent IndiaPresent South KoreaAnd Singapore. Last year the Indonesian political party Golkar Created a Deepfake the former president Suharto, who supports his candidate. (Suharto died in 2008).
Nevertheless, the AI-generated videos about the elevation of Duterte have not suitable real people, but instead create avatars to express political opinions.
Have the creators of the viral videos of the past week defended their use From AI for these reasons. Bernard Senocip, who created a video that supports the office, said AFP said that these avatars allowed people to express opinions and at the same time avoid criticism. The person behind the school boy video that Duterte defended claimed the news agency that the shared views of real students were collected.
