According to the portals ‘El País’ and ‘El Nacional’, the Government of Nicolas Maduro he would be making use of Artificial Intelligence to expose the achievements he would have obtained during his tenure. In his findings, they were able to demonstrate the type of technology that he would be using and the impersonation that would be carried out on another medium.
The videos would be being paid as advertising inYoutube under the television banner ‘House of News’; in the images you can see two presenters who speak in English and try to show how the economy in Venezuela would be improving “it is not so destroyed”, mentions one of the men.
In the other clip, the profits generated by the baseball games that took place in recent days are mentioned, the presenter says that profits of up to 10 million dollars were made on tickets, a figure that, according to the portal, It has not been specified by the Government.
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The ‘Fake News Hunters’ portal managed to demonstrate that the alleged journalists are avatars created with Artificial Intelligence synthesis, identified as Noah and Daren. These characters are among those offered in the application’s catalog.
This software allows you to make changes to the clothes of the avatars, even the investigation shows that Noah and Daren had already been used for a disinformation campaign in favor of China, which The New York Times denounced a few days ago.
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“This is the first case of avatars that we see creating videos using artificial intelligence. However, it is not the first time that we have observed the use of digital content created with artificial intelligence related to influence operations,” he told Cuban newspaper activist and expert Adrián González, founder and director of the Cazadores de Fake News observatory.
According to the portals that make this complaint, the videos created with Artificial Intelligence were disseminated as advertising for Youtube and they went viral on social networks such as TikTok, in addition to this they would have been broadcast on public television in Venezuela.
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Synthesia allows you to enter a text so that the software generates the realistic video with the available voices, which you can change language and accent to sync with the avatar’s lips.
This company was created in 2017 by entrepreneurs and researchers from universities in the United States and Europe, according to its website. The catalog of avatars is made up of “digital twins”, actors who have provided the images and have received payment for it, they say in their frequently asked questions section.
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