From Soch Fact Check
Outgoing US President Biden did not confess to helping orchestrate Pakistan ‘regime change’
By Haseem uz Zaman
Claim
US President Joe Biden admitted to taking the Pakistan Army chief on board in a conspiracy to remove former Prime Minister Imran Khan from office in April 2022, according to an audio recording.
Fact
Soch Fact Check conducted rigorous deepfake tests and spoke with multiple experts in the relevant fields to ascertain that the audio of Biden’s alleged confession is not authentic and is most likely AI-generated. A lack of any credible reporting on the development raises further questions about its authenticity. That its release was perfectly timed just weeks before the 2024 US elections also lends credibility to the fact that the audio is fake...
We also sent the audio for analysis to Professor Dr Hany Farid, a faculty member of the UC Berkeley’s School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences whose research focuses on digital forensics and misinformation, among other topics.
In an emailed response, Prof Farid — who is also a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab — said, “I’ve analyzed this audio with a model we trained to distinguish real from AI-generated voices. This model classifies this record as AI-generated. In addition, this audio has the tell-tale signs of being AI-generated in terms of cadence and intonation.”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
