Liars: German national TV caught using AI images of fake ICE arrest
Germany’s ZDF public broadcaster has come under fire over an episode of its flagship heute journal news programme after it emerged it broadcast an AI-generated video clip to illustrate alleged brutality by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
The footage, clearly bearing the watermark of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool, was used without proper labelling as synthetic content, prompting accusations of journalistic malpractice and fuelling wider debate over the use of generative AI in news reporting...
Viewers quickly noticed the prominent Sora watermark superimposed on the footage, a telltale sign that the material had been created by OpenAI’s generative video platform rather than captured in reality.
Surely public broadcasters don't strengthen their political messages by resorting to faked footage?
Whatever next?
7 comments:
Works for the BBC!
Tammly - maybe that's where the idea came from with the same Panorama justification.
It was an honest mistake by an intern. It just showed what is happening all the time, but nobody has managed to capture it on a phone yet.
Would we lie to you guv.
Ah yes, saw that. How will it all end, one wonders.
Mike - ha ha, just imagine the pointing fingers.
James - worse and worse for a while I imagine, AI slop is all over the place.
Many 'progressives' are seduced by the lure of a glorious Utopia, and typically believe that 'the ends justify the means' on the long march towards it.
Now if you are dedicated to using *any* means, then scrutinizing your evidence is not important even if it is unreliable (or an outright lie) .
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_end_justifies_the_means
DJ - yes, 'the ends justify the means' seems to be a major political justification. We see it all the time with Net Zero, apparently coupled with 'I want it now'.
Post a Comment