MTV Lebanon Beirut bomb victim deepfakes solicits backlash
A deepfake video purporting to 'commemorate' two victims of the 2020 Beirut port bombing, was blasted for being 'inappropriate', 'insensitive' and 'unethical'. The video f eatur ed deepfakes o f Ralph Mallahi and Amin Al-Zahed , both of whom lost their lives in the 2020 atrocity that killed over 200 people and injured some 6,500 . Titled 'A Letter to the Lebanese Judiciary', the video was shared on social media by MTV Lebanon with the hashtag, 'It’s been a year, the time is up.' Mouin Jaber, co-host of the popular Lebanese podcast “Sarde After Dinner,” told A rab News : "It’s dystopian. It’s emotional manipulation and blackmail taken to a whole other uncanny level." Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Documents 📃 MTV Lebanon deepfake video Operator: MTV Lebanon Developer: MTV Lebanon Country: Lebanon Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Commemorate bomb victims Technology: Deepfake - video, audio; Machine learning Issue: Appropriateness/need
- Date it happened
- 2021-07-01
- Organisation involved
- MTV Lebanon
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