The actor in the video denying the 2024 Olympics looks very similar to French President Emmanuel Macron, but the images of rats, garbage and sewage were created by artificial intelligence.
The parody video about the Olympics, which shows Paris as a swamp full of crime, has spread quickly on social media platforms, through 30,000 bots linked to a famous Russian disinformation group, which focused on France recently.
Within days, the video was available in 13 languages, thanks to fast AI translation.
“Paris… Paris… one two three… go to the Seine and pee,” asks the AI singer, while a fake Macron actor dances in the background, in reference to apparently there are concerns about water quality in the Seine where some of the competitions are held.
Groups linked to the Russian government are using online disinformation and propaganda to spread inflammatory claims and attack the host country of the Olympic Games.
Recently, disinformation networks linked to the Kremlin exploited the division over Algerian boxer Iman Khalif, who faced baseless questions about her gender and false accusations that she is transgender, after the Federation International Boxing, led by the Russian businessman Omar Kremlin, former boss of Omar Kremlin. Haifa and Taiwanese boxer Yu-Ting Lin failed to meet the gender eligibility criteria to be disqualified from last year’s world championships.
Questions arose over the International Boxing Federation’s decision to disqualify Khalifa last year after she defeated a Russian boxer.
Russian networks promoted the debate about Algerian boxing, which quickly became a popular topic on the Internet. Last week, users of the “X” platform were publishing tens of thousands of posts per hour about this boxing, according to a study by Peak Metrics, an electronic company that monitors reports. online.
Khalif and Lin competed in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, but did not win a medal and competed without the spotlight of the controversy shining on them.
In 2019, the International Olympic Committee revoked AIBA’s right to organize the Olympic competition, due to corruption concerns.
Most Olympic sports are overseen by international sports federations. But because the International Olympic Committee dismissed AIBA, they had to organize the competition itself in Tokyo in 2021, and then again in Paris 2024.
One of the founders of NewsGuard, Gordon Crovitz, believed that Russia’s decontamination campaign aimed at the Olympic Games is distinguished by its technical skills.
“What’s different now is that they are probably the most advanced users of generational AI models for malicious purposes, such as fake videos, fake music, fake websites,” he said.
AI can be used to create realistic images, audio and video clips, quickly translate text and create culturally specific content that appears to have been created by a human being.
Things that used to require a lot of work to create fake social media accounts or websites and write chat posts can now be done quickly and cheaply.
Another video circulated by accounts based in Russia said a few weeks ago that the CIA and the US State Department warned Americans not to use the Paris metro. In fact, no such warning was given.
Russian state media focused on crime, immigration, waste and pollution in Paris rather than covering sports competitions, according to the Associated Press.
2024-08-07 21:38:56
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