China's new challenge as natural disasters strike - fake AI videos
Storms and flooding incidents over the last few months have seen fake videos inundating social media.
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Notable Quotes
"Many of these content creators use disaster news to try to gain followers, knowing that more sensational or exaggerated content will garner more likes and more views."
— Huang Zhihua , Other
"AI dramatically lowers the technical barriers to producing false information."
— Chen Bin , Academic
"The motivation for the publishing of such false content ranges from those who do it to create something amusing without thinking about the consequences."
— Gao Fuping , Academic
"Detection technology still lags behind generation technology."
— Xu Xiaoke , Academic
Key People
A professor at the Communist Party's Central Party School.
A professor from the East China University of Political Science and Law.
Deputy Chief in charge of online public security for Zhejiang Police Department.
A professor from Beijing Normal University.
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Storms and flooding incidents over the last few months have seen fake videos inundating social media.
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