Lawsuit accuses unknown directors of a Fb web page of falsely exhibiting the minister urging residents to spend money on “high-yield” schemes.
The Greek Ministry of Economic system and Finance and minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis filed a lawsuit on Friday for misleading promoting on Fb towards the unknown directors of a web page on the social media platform.
The ministry and Pierrakakis allege that AI was used to create deceptive promoting for an funding scheme – an audiovisual ‘deepfake’ of Pierrakakis showing to advertise the scheme.
The fabric “falsely depicted Minister Pierrakakis urging residents to spend money on supposedly ‘high-yield programmes’,” the ministry stated, including that “it has no relation to actuality”.
Greek police have reported earlier than on misleading commercials on social media and web sites, the place supposedly influential figures seem to induce residents to purchase “miracle” medicines or spend money on supposedly high-yield cryptocurrencies, gold or oil, whereas on the identical time providing supposedly private testimonies of how they themselves made vital income.
In February, Greek police found a hoop of unlawful trafficking of adulterated medicines through the web, which used deepfake movies with the voice or picture of celebrities, such because the well-known physician Sotiris Tsiodras, the journalist Nikos Hatzinikolaou and the singer Giorgos Dalaras to promote the medicines.
The EU’s AI Act, the primary complete regulation worldwide to manage synthetic intelligence, classifies deepfakes as restricted danger, however considers utilizing AI to affect an election or voting behaviour as excessive danger.
