Journalists from Texty.org.ua analyzed 595 videos generated by AI that used images of famous women, including news anchors.
Journalists from Texty.org.ua analyzed 595 videos generated by AI that used images of famous women, including news anchors.
These videos have received over 24 million views on the TikTok social network.
For example, journalists discovered 100 AI videos on social media featuring «1+1» presenter Solomiya Vitvitska — some of the videos had her voice generated, while others had completely fake stories with fake facial expressions, synthetic intonation, and false messages.
The publication flagged 328 TikTok videos with audio manipulations and another 267 videos where artificial intelligence was used to create or alter both the image and voice.
Among the journalists whose images are used most actively are Solomiya Vitvitska from «1+1» (17 video generations and 83 audio manipulations), Anastasia Daugule from the TV channel «Inter» (26 video generations and 42 audio manipulations), and Alla Mazur from «1+1» (13 video generations and 42 audio manipulations).
For example, in one of the analyzed videos, fake Alla Mazur talks about an initiative that supports People’s Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko’s proposal to mobilize 500,000 police officers instead of civilians.
Meanwhile, the video with the fake Natalia Moseychuk has gained 517,000 views and over 7,700 likes: it also talks about a new petition, which proposes sending CCC and police officers to the front instead of «ordinary Ukrainians.»
«It is worth noting that those who exploit the images of popular TV presenters also copy well-known media brands. The names of TikTok accounts through which fake journalists promoted themselves often contained elements that evoked associations with legitimate news sources. For example, the „tsn“ part appeared in at least fifteen accounts: tsn.news.ua1, tsn_.news11, tsn.news.24.7, tsn1.news, etc. Such imitation was intended to create an additional illusion of trust in the distributors of video content,» the publication states in its study.
As for the analyzed videos, they concerned:
The journalists also concluded that almost every fourth video found with AI intervention exploits the images of female journalists in order to obtain user data and increase the audience of their resources with the help of fakes about social assistance.
Meanwhile, almost 20% of videos contain destructive or anti-Ukrainian narratives. Most often, this is content about the horrors of mobilization, illegal actions of law enforcement officers, and discrediting the authorities and military-political leadership.
As dev.ua reported, an application was created at the request of pro-Russian politician Murayev, which will soon appear on the Play Market and App Store. Media outlets say that this is done to collect personal data of Ukrainians for the benefit of Russians.
