From AFP News Agency.
In this video see all of AFP Fact Check’s coverage of AI in 2025.
We take you to the Philippines where Veo 3’s release inspired creators to express political views through fake interviews with imaginary citizens, and give you an in-depth interview with expert Henry Ajder about the impacts of tools like Veo 3 and how users and platforms cashed in and coped.
Hear from a US actor who stumbled upon his own avatar online and see how deepfakes of royals were used to defraud Malaysia’s neediest citizens.
Our journalists show how AI-generated soldiers, protests, crash footage were used to exploit real events in Ukraine, China and Bangladesh.
And if you’ve ever wondered how search results differ between a search engine or an LLM, we test both in a short tutorial from our Paris newsroom.
01:09 Duterte, Veo 3 and how AI is changing political speech online
07:30 Expert Henry Ajder: Veo 3 makes online content harder to verify
18:23 AI images exploit Bangladesh jet crash tragedy
20:39 Deepfakes of Malaysian royals used to scam those in need
22:27 US actor describes becoming an online avatar
26:07 LLM or search engine: how do the results differ?
30:03 AI clip falsely shared as China protest after actor’s death
31:29 Sora-generated crying "Ukrainian" soldiers flood social media
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