Deepfake news anchors extol Venezuela economic health
Noah" and "Daren", a pair of news anchors extolling the quality of Venezuela's economy on Venezuelan state-owned television station VTV were exposed as deepfakes. The two avatars had been created using artificial intelligence from London-based AI video creation platform Synthesia , which offers a cheap, easy-to-use catalogue of over a hundred multi-racial faces. 'News reports' by the two avatars were broadcast on state broadcaster Venezolana de Televisión generated hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and TikTok. Civil rights advocates worry that deepfakes are the latest in an already full-to-bursting armoury of underhand digital tactics being employed by the Venezuelan government and its allies. ➕ October 2024. Actor Dan Dewhirst publicly complained that his likeness had been misu sed by VTV , causing him distress, damaging his reputation and possibly losing him clients. 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 🤖 Synthesia AI video generator Operator: House of News; Venezolana de Televisión Developer: House of News; Synthesia Country: Venezuela Sector: Politics Purpose: Promote government Technology: Deepfake; Machine learning Issue: Mis/disinformation
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-01
- Organisation involved
- House of News; Venezolana de Televisión
- Product, system or model
- Synthesia
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