The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
Source: 404 Media
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The fake videos and images show how generative AI has already become a staple of modern conflict. On one end, AI-generated content of unknown origin is filling the void created by state-sanctioned media blackouts with misinformation, and on the other end, the leaders of these countries are sharing AI-generated slop to spread the oldest forms of xenophobia and propaganda.
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AI slop is not the sole domain of anonymous amateur and professional propagandists. The leaders of both Iran and Israel are doing it too. The Supreme Leader of Iran is posting AI-generated missile launches on his X account, a match for similar grotesques on the account of Israel’s Minister of Defense.
New tools like Google’s Veo 3 make AI-generated videos more realistic than ever. Iranian news outlet Tehran Times shared a video to X that it said captured “the moment an Iranian missile hit a building in Bat Yam, southern Tel Aviv.” The video was fake. In another that appeared to come from a TV news spot, a massive missile moved down a long concrete hallway. It’s also clearly AI-generated, and still shows the watermark in the bottom right corner for Veo.
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“In just the last 12 hours, we at GetReal have been seeing a slew of fake videos surrounding the recent conflict between Israel and Iran. We have been able to link each of these visually compelling videos to Veo 3,” he said in a post on LinkedIn. “It is no surprise that as generative-AI tools continue to improve in photo-realism, they are being misused to spread misinformation and sow confusion.”
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Read more: https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-fight-between-iran-and-israel/
The man quoted in the last paragraph above is Hany Farid, a Berkeley professor and founder of a synthetic media detection company.
Thanks, AI bros, for more of the entirely predictable harms your tools have brought us.
Anyone who's seen the recent film Mountainhead might be remembering the chaos in that film due to AI-generated "news" videos.
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