Olga Loiek, a 21-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania, started a YouTube channel to connect with an online audience. But soon, her image was taken and altered by artificial intelligence, creating fake versions of her on Chinese social media.
“This is literally like my face speaking Mandarin and, in the background, I’m seeing the Kremlin and Moscow, and I’m talking about how great Russia and China are,” the Ukrainian YouTuber toldwomen on Chinese social media express love for China, support Russia, and sell products from Russia. However, these people are not real.technology using videos of real women found online, sometimes without their permission. Experts say these fake videos target single Chinese men.
Despite these efforts, experts such as Xin Dai from Peking University Law School point out that regulations are having trouble keeping pace with AI progress.