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AI Video-Making Tool Abused to Deploy Pro-China News on Social Media

December 1, 2022

Synthesia's AI-generated video-making tool was reportedly used by Spamouflage to disseminate pro-China propaganda news on social media using videos featuring highly realistic fictitious news anchors.
Alleged deployer
spamouflage-dragon
Alleged developer
synthesia
Alleged harmed parties
youtube-users, twitter-users, synthesia, facebook-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/486

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