Vladimir Putin declares Russia martial law deepfake
Russian president Valdimir Putin gave a fake AI addr e ss on television and radio stations announcing that Ukrainian forces had invaded Russia, martial law had been declared in the border regions and that a nationwide military mobilisation had begun. The broadcast ran in Belgorod, Voronezh, and Rostov, cities in close proximity to Ukraine’s border , and inflamed already high tensions on Russia's borders after a series of military incursions by self-proclaimed Russian and 'patriots' and armed insurgents. Russian news agency TASS later reported that Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov had said the purported address by was fake and the result of a hack. It is unclear who had created the fake materials or what their intention was. 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 📃 Tass (2023). Песков назвал взломом показанное в некоторых телесетях "экстренное обращение Путина" Tass (2023). В Крыму сообщили о взломе трансляций местных кабельных операторов Operator: Developer: Country: Russia Sector: Politics Purpose: Scare/confuse/destabilise Technology: Deepfake - audio, video; Machine learning Issue: Impersonation; Mis/disinformation; Tran sparency
- Date it happened
- 2023-06-01
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