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The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) recently flagged a video featuring a deepfake audio of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. supposedly instructing the military to act against a foreign country.

The Presidential Communications Office recently flagged a video featuring a deepfake audio of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. supposedly instructing the military to act against a foreign country.Marcos never gave such an order, the PCO said, and that his voice was mimicked in the video through the use of generative artificial intelligence .“Ginamit lang 'yung boses ng Pangulo at ginawan siya ng script para ilapat doon sa video na mukha siyang mismo ang nagsasalita.

“Wala akong magandang nakikitang idinudulot at kapakinabangan sa deep fake. 'Yun nga yung example natin kanina na pang-katatawanan lang, still, it causes confusion,” the DICT official added.In 2019, a video that had been edited to make it appear as though former senator Leila de Lima had acknowledged that she was a protector of the Bilibid drug lords and that she would step down from office.

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