Deepfakes are Shake politicsWith politicians and their supporters turning to videos generated by AI to make arguments, attack their opponents and, worse, share a disinformation. Powerful and accessible videos generation tools now modify standards to find out if and how to use this false content.
The vice-president of the allies of the Philippines, Sara Duterte, Shared a viral video Characters generated by AI last week in order to defend the besieged politician against an imminent dismissal trial. The video presented two schoolchildren generated by the AI criticizing the dismissal trial as “politically motivated“And an example of” selective “justice.
The video was soon exposed as a “deep faces” and the press agent at the presidential palace Claire Castro criticized politicians To share disinformation and false news.
The vice-president took a different approach, Say journalists That she thought that sharing a video generated by AI was good, as long as no profit was achieved. Senator Ronald Dela Rosa, who also shared the video defend one’s actions: “Even if it is AI … I agree with the point,” he said, according to AFP.
Another viral video featured an elderly woman generated by AI, who adopted a pro-impassification position.
This political back and forth is the latest development of the Sara Duterte’s dismissal saga. The daughter of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was accused of corruption, abuse of public funds and threatening to assassinate the former ally and The current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. if he is officially dismissed, Duterte be withdrawn from Bureau and prohibition of lifelong policy.
On June 10, the Philippin Senate referred the Duterte’s dismissal to the country’s House of Representatives in a few hours to convene a trial, asking for clarification on its constitutionality. Lower body voted for dismissal Duterte in early February.
Friday, prosecutors at home asked the Senate proceed to the trial.
This is not the first time that Deepfakes has appeared in Philippine politics. Last year, a video generated by the AI-AI of President Marcos taking illegal drugs has become viral. The anti-cybercriminal group of the national police is Currently investigation Another depth of Marcos promoting an online trading platform.
Political campaigns clearly adopt content generated by AI. The Trump campaign shared images of the candidate riding a lion and approved by Taylor Swift before last year’s presidential elections; Officials of the Trump administration continue to share Caricatures generated by AI on social networks to make political points.
Videos generated by AI have been largely reported in the elections in Asia, including in Pakistan,, India,, South KoreaAnd Singapore. Last year, the Indonesian political party Golkar Created a fake deep Former President Suharto approving his candidate. (Suharto died in 2008).
However, the videos generated by AI around the dismissal of Duterte do not have any identity of real people, but rather create avatars to express political opinions.
The creators of last week’s viral videos have defended their use AI for these reasons. Bernard Senocip, who created a video supporting the accusation trial, told AFP that these avatars allowed people to express opinions while avoiding criticism. The person behind the schoolchildren’s video, who defended Duterte, told the news agency that shared opinions had been collected from real students.
