Researchers of the analytical company Graphika discovered A series of dipfake-video, in which leading news spread pro-Chinese government propaganda. According to experts, the propaganda campaign is conducted by Spamouflage.
The video shows a man and a woman leading news releases in the Wolf News media company. In one of the videos, the host of the news condemns America for its inability to stop violence using firearms. In another video, TV presenters emphasize the need for Chinese -American cooperation in efforts to restore the global economy. At first glance, the leading Wolf News look like real people, – says Graphika. “At first we thought that these were paid actors who hired For filming in videos.
The further investigation Graphika showed that the leading Wolf News was created using a technology provided by the British company in the field of artificial intelligence called synthesia . People created by artificial intelligence speak in the videos on Arabic , Romanian , Spanish and English languages.
Synthesia declares that it does not offer its software for public use. All content goes through the internal process of verification before it is transferred to the authorized clients. In addition, there are restrictions that avatars can say: “Political, sexual, personal, criminal and discriminatory content is not allowed and not approved.”
Spamouflage campaign violates both politicians. Spamouflage somehow took possession of and used Synthesia technology to produce its content, violating the Synthesia rules.
However, despite the use of avatars, the rest of the Spamouflage videos look like “low -quality political spam.” At the same time, 83% of the video scored less than 100 views on YouTube.
In addition, the report concludes that the element of the dipteum in the news releases “was almost certainly created using a commercial service,” and not on its own. This suggests that Spamouflage and other companies do not have technical knowledge to create very complex dipfaces and will continue to use available commercial tools. However, as Graphika notes, it also raises questions about how to effectively moderate the use of these products and services.