{"id":16235,"date":"2024-10-16T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/its-not-me-its-just-my-face-the-models-who-found-their-likenesses-had-been-used-in-ai-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:37:19","slug":"its-not-me-its-just-my-face-the-models-who-found-their-likenesses-had-been-used-in-ai-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/its-not-me-its-just-my-face-the-models-who-found-their-likenesses-had-been-used-in-ai-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not me, it\u2019s just my face\u2019: the models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

London-based Synthesia\u2019s technology was employed to make deepfake videos for authoritarian regimes<\/p>\n

The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must support \u2026 President Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 \u2026 Homeland or death we shall overcome!\u201d he says in a video that began circulating in early 2023 on Telegram. It was just a few months after the dictator had come to power via a military coup.<\/p>\n

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\nLondon-based Synthesia\u2019s technology was employed to make deepfake videos for authoritarian regimes
\nThe well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso.
\n\u201cWe must support \u2026 President Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 \u2026 Homeland or death we shall overcome!\u201d he says in a video that began circulating in early 2023 on Telegram. It was just a few months after the dictator had come to power via a military coup. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London-based Synthesia\u2019s technology was employed to make deepfake videos for authoritarian regimes The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso. \u201cWe must support \u2026 President Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 \u2026 Homeland or death …<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s not me, it\u2019s just my face\u2019: the models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}