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Days after the Philippine Senate declined to launch the impeachment trial of the country’s vice president, two interviews with Filipinos arguing for and against the move went viral.
Neither were real.
The schoolboys and elderly woman making their cases were AI creations, examples of increasingly sophisticated fakes possible with even basic online tools.
“Why single out the VP?”, a digitally created boy in a white school uniform asks, arguing that the case was politically motivated.
The House of Representatives impeached Sara Duterte in early February on…
