Russia is repurposing purchased Cameo videos from US celebrities to make them seem to be disparaging Ukraine's leader

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Russia is repurposing purchased Cameo videos from US celebrities to make them seem to be disparaging Ukraine's leader | Boing Boing

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[danimagoo]

Between this and George Santos, maybe we need to rethink this whole Cameo thing. With what AI(ish) can do these days, there is no way, if I were someone well known, that I would sign up with Cameo.

[Otherbrother]

@boingboing

The video was recorded on Cameo, the popular, though now struggling, app where users can pay for personalized messages from famous people — in Mr. Wood’s case, starting at $340. While a genuine video, it was repurposed as part of Russia’s efforts to falsely denigrate Mr. Zelensky as a drug-addled neo-Nazi.

So I was totally expecting Russia (and other players) to put out a lot of disinformation and deepfake videos, but apparently in 2023 it’s still cheaper to just pay famous folks a few hundred dollars to say what you want. Who knew?

[gracchus]

Yep. The video and audio data can become a training set, and suddenly the celebrity is a puppet for Putin or someone selling reverse mortgages or robot insurance.