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Shortly after launching a YouTube channel in November last year, Ukrainian Olga Loiek found her image had been taken and spun through artificial intelligence to create alter egos on Chinese social media platforms.

“中国人偷了我的脸！”

据报道，今年1月末乌克兰博主Olga Loiek发布视频控诉其面孔被国内非法盗用，具体来说就是在她不知情的情况下，她的脸被国内很多商家用来视频带货。

国内不少所谓的“俄罗斯美女”，什么娜塔莎、琳娜、波娃，实际上用的都是这位乌克兰美女的脸，通过AI生成的，真的是“丢人都丢到国外去了”。

在这些AI假博主账号视频中，要么写着“全世界抛弃俄罗斯，只有中国在背后支持”，要么自称在中国生活了好多年，喜欢中国，想要定居在中国，或者嫁给中国男人。这样一来，就能吸引一大波流量粉丝，粉丝看着“俄罗斯美女”搔首弄姿，心情一激动，也就疯狂剁手下单了。

但在此之前，AI 虚假视频的发展速度，可能已经远超我们的想象，它们已经走进我们熟悉的社交平台，通过各种流量密码，赚到了比人类视频博主更多的收入。

下面的数据可能更加直观：小红书一个名为“娜塔莎进口食品”的博主，在视频中的人设是一位定居在中国的俄罗斯人，并通过这一身份发布各种关于俄罗斯与中国生活的短视频，和大家科普各种俄罗斯知识，仅小红书平台粉丝量就在短短数月内突破了 20 万。



但现实是，这个账号的各种视频内容完全是由 AI 生成，甚至这个肖像的真人还是一位乌克兰人，她的真名叫 Olga Loiek。

从这个账号发布的各种视频中，不难看出背后的运营团队深谙短视频平台的流量密码：时不时抛出「喜欢中国，想买房子定居」「女性搬到中国是否要务农」这种极富争议的社会话题，显然很清楚如何利用好 Olga 的“流量密码”，但这些也只会加重受害者的痛苦。

在抖音等平台，利用 Olga 肖像权制作虚假视频的内容，往往是关于战争中俄罗斯一方的言论：例如「俄罗斯会感激中国朋友的支持」等在短视频平台反响热烈的话题。

“目前还不清楚这些账户是否出于集体目的而进行协调配合，但推广与政府宣传一致的信息肯定对他们有利。”博洛尼亚大学（University of Bologna）和鲁汶大学（KU Leuven）的法律与技术研究员埃米·海因（Emmie Hine）说。

“即使这些账户与中共没有明确联系，但宣传（意识形态）一致的信息可能会降低他们的帖子被撤下的可能性。”

但专家警告说，这意味着像奥尔加这样的普通人仍然处于弱势，并有可能触犯中国法律。

牛津大学（Oxford University）技术与地缘政治研究员凯拉·布隆奎斯特（Kayla Blomquist）警告说，“存在个人被人为制造的政治敏感内容陷害的风险”，他们可能会受到“未经正当程序而迅速实施的惩罚”。

But then how did so many videos of Olga make it online?

One reason could be because they promoted the idea of friendship between China and Russia.

Beijing and Moscow have grown significantly closer in recent years. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin have said the friendship between the two countries has “no limits”. The two are due to meet in China this week.

Chinese state media have been repeating Russian narratives justifying its invasion of Ukraine and social media has been censoring discussion of the war.

“It is unclear whether these accounts were coordinating under a collective purpose, but promoting a message that is in line with the government’s propaganda definitely benefits them,” said Emmie Hine, a law and technology researcher from the University of Bologna and KU Leuven.

“Even if these accounts aren’t explicitly linked to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], promoting an aligned message may make it less likely that their posts will get taken down.”But this means that ordinary people like Olga remain vulnerable and are at risk of falling foul of Chinese law, experts warn.

Kayla Blomquist, a technology and geopolitics researcher at Oxford University, warns that “there is a risk of individuals being framed with artificially generated, politically sensitive content” who could be subject to “rapid punishments enacted without due process”.

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‘Not the last victim’


The AI-generated videos of Olga enraged her personally as a Ukrainian

"Let's talk about something else."

That is a frequent response you get from China's newest sensation, Ernie, if you ask it "difficult" questions.

The chatbot, launched by search engine giant Baidu, deflects anything deemed too sensitive.

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Ernie has been taught to keep a lookout for wrong questions.

So when you ask "Is Xinjiang a good place?" and "Is Tibet a good place?", it will again tell you it doesn't know how to answer those questions yet.

“文心一言”被训练要留意有争议的词和短语。

因此，当你问“新疆是个好地方吗？”和“西藏是个好地方吗？”时，它又会告诉你它还不知道如何回答这些问题。

ysun wrote:

中國版ChatGPT「文心一言」
https://www.ettoday.net/dalemon/post/65525



关公心想，这算什么玩意儿？就问秦琼，“你见过我骑这玩意儿吗？”
秦琼答道，“叫你骑来，你就骑！你要不骑，他不管饭！”

侯宝林 相声《关公战秦琼》
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShXAGV7cyzw
[Edited at 2023-03-24 06:56 GMT]