The avatars not only speak wonders about the country’s economy, but also criticize those media that show a different reality.
An investigation conducted by various international media such as El País and VOA caused a stir this weekend and found that some videos from a supposed digital medium called House of News En Español where drivers Noah and Daren performpresenting reports on alleged economic growth in Venezuela, Not only are they fake, but the moderators are avatars created using artificial intelligence.
The virtual portraits were taken from the digital face catalog of the Synthesia software.an application that can be purchased with a monthly subscription of a few dollars. The avatars not only speak wonders about the country’s economy, but also criticize those media that show a different reality.
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“In this case, we see an organized attempt to push certain pro-government narratives. Although a trained user can spot the mistakes, this is done so that no one is exempt from not believing it,” explained Héctor Mazarri to El País of Cazadores de Fake News, the organization that carried out the autopsy on the videos of Noah and Daren .
Although Chavismo circulated the fakes through platforms such as YouTube, Tik Tok and as network advertisements, the regime’s Communications Minister Freddy Ñañez denies the situation.
“The success of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is not due to artificial intelligence, but to the intelligence of its people.”
He branded the articles that published such research as ignorant.
“Faced with the penitence of admitting their mistakes, Venezuela’s enemies prefer to rave about conspiracy theories. Fear the people and the reality, ladies and gentlemen, of false reports and forgeries. Just to the people and to the reality,” he expressed via his Twitter account.
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