News Fake video of Kishida goes viral

[thomas]

A harbinger of what AI will bring: a fake video of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida making vulgar statements of a sexual nature in a news program went viral on social media before its creator deleted the footage, which he said he made for fun. Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV), whose program logo was used, was anything but amused and alerted viewers about the content.

The video, which was apparently created using generative artificial intelligence and purported to show Kishida talking to the camera, had the prime minister's oversized face superimposed on a person wearing a suit. The footage used the logo of NTV's "Nippon TV News 24" news program and pretended it was being broadcast live. "It is unforgivable that the broadcast and the program logo were misused in the fake video," NTV said in a later program. The video appeared on social media platforms such as X, formerly known as Twitter. Its 25-year-old creator told The Asahi Shimbun, "I had no intention of insulting or attacking the prime minister personally but used his image as a celebrity icon." The man, who lives in Osaka Prefecture, said he made the video in less than an hour using a free tool. He said Kishida's voice was generated by having generative AI learn a video of Kishida speaking. He said the image was taken from an NTV news program that appeared close to the top of a list of search results with the combination of keywords "Prime Minister Kishida" and "News."

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A still image of a fake video of what appears to be Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as posted on the Niconico Douga video-sharing site. (Image has been partially modified.) The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] A fake video of what appears to be Prime Minister Fumio Kishida making vulgar...

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[Grandpa Frank]

I have visions of someone sending Iran or North Korea a Biden AI video saying he's declaring war on them and off we go with WWIII.