Corruption doc incorporating Tom Cruise deepfake attacks IOC

A n AI-generated impersonation of Tom Cruise was used in a disinformation campaign dressed up as a Netflix documentary a ccus ing the IOC of corruption . Fake f our-part Netflix video documentary series ' Olympics Has Fallen ' alleges widespread corruption across the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and uses Tom Cruise's voice to implicate high-ranking officials. The IOC has not publicly blamed Moscow for the campaign. However, the sports body had recently suspended Russia’s National Olympic Committee and announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes would only be allowed to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics under a neutral flag due to the country's decision to recognise regional sports organisations in the occupied regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine as members . The fake episodes were removed from YouTube but continue to circulate on a Russian-language channel on Telegram. ➕ June 2024. Microsoft reports on Russian attempts to disrupt the 2024 Olympic Games. 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 Operator: Government of Russia Developer: Government of Russia Country: Russia Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts; Politics Purpose: Damage reputation Technology: Deepfake - audio; Machine learning Issue: E thics/values; Mis/di sinformation

Date it happened

2023-11-01

Organisation involved

Government of Russia

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