From AFP Fact Check
ABC News segment altered to inflate Ukrainian soldier deaths
By Daniel Galgano
“ABC NEWS: ‘In just about 2.5 years of war about 1 million Ukrainian soldiers have died’ and ‘hundreds of thousands have lost limbs.’ All of this was preventable. They lost an entire generation,” says a December 12, 2024 X post from Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who has previously shared misinformation...
Hany Farid, a media forensics expert at the University of California-Berkeley, (archived here), said the audio from the clip was generated using artificial intelligence and was most likely created using software from ElevenLabs, a company that produces AI voice generation products.
The claim that one million Ukrainian soldiers have been killed appears to come from a speech that North Atlantic Treaty Organization chief Mark Rutte gave December 12, 2024...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
