AI-Generated Pope Sermons Flood YouTube and TikTok

(ANSA-AFP) - WASHINGTON, 06 JUNE - Video and audio of Pope Leo AI-generated XIVs are flooding YouTube and TikTok for a month now, when it was the new pontiff has been elected. The hundreds of sermons and speeches false, in English and Spanish, they underline once again how easy it is to generate this content and how difficult it is control of the platforms. "There is a natural interest in what the new Pope has to offer. say and people still do not know his position and his style - said Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus of the University of Washington, founder of TrueMedia.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting deepfakes - A perfect opportunity to sow trouble with disinformation generated by artificial intelligence". After AFP showed YouTube 26 channels that They mainly published content about the Pope generated from artificial intelligence, the platform has closed 16 for violation of its policies against spam, practices deceptive and scams and another for violation of the terms of YouTube service. Similarly, TikTok has removed 11 accounts reported - with over 1.3 million total followers - by resorting to the platform's policies against impersonation, harmful disinformation and content AI-generated misleading information about characters public. Before being deleted these contents were viewed by millions of people. (ANSA-AFP).