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Social media users are sharing videos that appear to show news anchors from CNN and Fox News promoting new or simple treatments for diabetes. But the clips were manipulated using artificial intelligence, and the news networks say they did not broadcast such a broadcast. packages.
“An American doctor said he would pay a million dollars to anyone who didn’t cure diabetes with his new drug,” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer appears to say in a November 6, 2023 article. Facebook Reel. The video then cuts to an alleged endorsement of Mehmet Ozdoctor and former television host who ran an unsuccessful 2022 Senate campaign.
Another November 1st video shows Fox News’ Laura Ingraham making a similar claim, saying a new drug “invented in America” will treat diabetic foot disease.
“During the first 72 hours, sugar stabilizes… in just one treatment, the body becomes completely healthy again,” the host seems to say.
Other posts, some with thousands of interactions, include similar excerpts from the Fox News broadcast. Martha MacCallum And Jesse Watters, Sarah Sidner from CNN. Some include links to an apparent Fox News article about diabetes, while others share unrelated health blogs.
Screenshot of a Facebook Reel taken on November 7, 2023
Screenshot of a Facebook Reel taken on November 7, 2023
Diabetes, which can be managed with diet, exercise and certain approved medications, is a common subject of disinformation. AFP has already verified the facts many the demands of Disapproved supplements, and U.S. health officials warn there are little evidence support alternative treatments, some of which may be dangerous.
Clips of American journalists promoting these cures are being manipulated, according to news channels and digital forensics experts.
“These are all deepfakes, and very poor quality at that,” said Hany Faridprofessor at the University of California at Berkeley.
“With the rapid improvement in voice cloning and lip-syncing deepfakes, I have seen an increase in these types of videos in which a person’s voice is cloned from as little as two minutes of their voice, then any video of her is edited in such a way that the mouth is consistent with the new audio.”
Siwei Lyudirector of the Media Forensic Lab at the University of Buffalo, admitted that the videos had been manipulated with artificial intelligence.
“The audios are created with AI models – they cannot pass our AI-generated audio detection algorithm, and they lack common paralinguistic features such as breathing and appropriate pauses,” Lyu said in a November 7 email.
“Video and audio do not sync well. Video frames show artifacts around the lip area, suggesting that they may be created with AI-based lip sync tools such as HeyGan or wav2lip. This is also confirmed by our deep fake video detection method.”
A CNN spokesperson confirmed in a Nov. 7 email that the Blitzer and Sidner videos “are fabricated and not something Wolf or Sara said or reported.”
Similarly, a Fox spokesperson said the videos of Ingraham, MacCallum and Watters “were not broadcast on Fox News.” Channel.”
Using reverse image And keyword During research, AFP discovered that the clips had been manipulated from real segments broadcast on CNN and Fox. None related to diabetes:
- Ingraham said September 19, 2023 on Fox: “Liberals don’t care about crime unless it’s committed by people they don’t like or agree with. »
- Sidner’s music video comes from a September 18 interview with a former Virginia prosecutor.
- Also September 18 McCallum discussed the investigation into Hunter Biden.
- Blitzer’s music video ” comes from a September 18 report on a voter fraud trial in the state of Georgia.
- Watters September 26 discussed illegal immigration.
AFP has already debunked manipulated media involving journalists here And hereand fake celebrity product endorsements here And here.
