Have you seen clips from a new documentary narrated by Tom Cruise called Olympics Has Fallen, a play on the title of the 2013 movie Olympus Has Fallen? The new film claims to document the corruption in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, France. But it’s fake. Cruise’s narration was created with artificial intelligence and the “documentary” is actually the work of disinformation agents tied to the Russian government, according to a new report from researchers at Microsoft.
The entire film is available on the messaging app Telegram, where Gizmodo watched it. We’ve uploaded a minute of the film below just to give a sense of how realistic the AI-generated narration sounds. The fake documentary first surfaced in June 2023, according to Microsoft, but appears to be getting renewed attention as the Olympics get closer. The games start in Paris on July 26 and are scheduled to last through August 11.