DeepfakeMedium
AI Video-Making Tool Abused to Deploy Pro-China News on Social Media
- Occurred
- Dec 1, 2022
- Published
- Mar 11, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Synthesia's AI-generated video-making tool was reportedly used by Spamouflage to disseminate pro-China propaganda news on social media using videos featuring highly realistic fictitious news anchors.
Developers
- Synthesia
Deployers
- Spamouflage Dragon
Harmed parties
- YouTube users
- Synthesia
- Facebook users
- X (Twitter) users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI-generated realistic news anchors used for propaganda dissemination constitutes deepfake abuse.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8