鈿狅笍 Alert on #Youtube's bombardment by #AI surrogate #influencers. Likely 1,000's of #misinformation channels run by who knows what malign actors.
For instance your popular #geopolitical analist cloned by #LLM #deepfake, with nothing that indicates this, or sometimes with an obfuscated disclaimer ("we're fans of").
Some vids are REALLY hard to discern from the real deal, esp. if you do not know the speaker upfront. Only a slight #UncannyValley tells.
Some channels have millions of subscribers.
#WTF! 馃槨
Vid by Prof Richard Wolff. Except its a full #AI re-creation of this guy. Collapsed description of the YT channel reads:
> Disclaimer: Heart To Wolf is an independent, fan-created channel and is not affiliated with Richard D. Wolff or any of his companies.
> By reimagining these messages through modern editing, narration, and presentation, we aim to help viewers connect emotionally and intellectually with the insights shared, without any intention to misrepresent the original views.
Just found another #Youtube channel, this one showing a deep fake #Varoufakis giving #geopolitical analysis, emulating perfectly the typical English accent he speaks with.
The channel which YT says originates in Canada, exists just for one month and has only 46 subscribers. But some vids are watched up to 2.5k times.
There's no disclaimer as a "fan site", the channel is pretending to be real.
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_nbkZ9ZiFI
(link made unclickable on purpose)
