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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