Meta's Oversight Board Will Examine Deepfake Video Of A UK Politician Facebook Left Online
The allegedly AI-generated video depicted the politician making incendiary statements about refugees.
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Meta's Oversight Board is investigating an apparently AI-generated video of a British politician that misrepresents their views on issues such as immigration. The board said the video in question was part of an album posted on Facebook in November last year, and features a seemingly deepfaked Labour Party councillor who represents an area in Scotland making sarcastic and offensive comments about refugees and sexual assault.
As well as the deepfake video, the post also includes a video of pro-Palestine protesters that the Oversight Board also suspects to be AI-generated, plus a likely genuine still image of several women, including the politician from the first video, holding anti-far-right signs. The women are also named in the post, and the written caption is said to make baseless accusations of tax evasion against the Labour politician.
The board says...
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