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    This ‘Russian Woman’ Loves China. Too Bad She’s a Deepfake. | A.I.-manipulated videos on Chinese sites use young, supposedly Russian women to promote China-Russia ties, stoke patriotism — and make money.
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    This ‘Russian Woman’ Loves China. Too Bad She’s a Deepfake. | A.I.-manipulated videos on Chinese sites use young, supposedly Russian women to promote China-Russia ties, stoke patriotism — and make money.


    This ‘Russian Woman’ Loves China. Too Bad She’s a Deepfake. | A.I.-manipulated videos on Chinese sites use young, supposedly Russian women to promote China-Russia ties, stoke patriotism — and make money.

    https://www.nytimes.com//2024/05/20/world/asia/china-russia-deepfake.html

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    1. Onaym on

      The woman declares, in Mandarin inflected with a slight accent, that Chinese men should marry “us Russian women.” In other videos on the Chinese short video platform Douyin, she describes how much she loves Chinese food, and hawks salt and soap from her country. “Russian people don’t trick Chinese people,” she promises.

      But her lip movements don’t quite match the audio of the videos, which were posted recently to an account using the name “Ladina.” That is because it is footage of Shadé Zahrai, an Australian career strategist with more than 1.7 million TikTok followers, that has been modified using artificial intelligence. Someone dubbed Ms. Zahrai’s video clips with a voice speaking Mandarin Chinese to make it seem that she was peddling Russian products.

      Welcome to a flourishing genre on Chinese social media: A.I.-manipulated videos that use young, purportedly Russian, women to rally support for China-Russia ties, stoke patriotic fervor or make money — and sometimes all three at once.

    2. Onaym on

      Well she is as fake as the actual Sino-Russian ties. Regardless of how much the supposed Chinese help to Russia dominates the news agenda in actuality the economic cooperation is rather strained. Chinese banks are reluctant to extend any sort of credit to Russia and even more reluctant to service the money transfers in export/import operations. So this whole thing is just mighty weird

    3. chasin_my_dreams on

      They got to prepare a ground for Chinese men populating Russia hehe if all of Russians go and die at war

    4. ITividar on

      Must be fun times for Ivan. Go fight and die in Ukraine so some Chinese AI can mail order your widow off to China.

    5. Antievl on

      The Chinese dictatorship is truly pathetic… they did this with a Ukrainian female a few months ago too

      China is only capable of self praise because its dictatorship is so frail