A video material is published showing a citizen expressing her position on the June 7 elections in Kosovo.
in video posted on Thursday (June 4) on TikTok by the account named “viralshqip4”, a citizen is seen giving a statement to a media outlet in an environment that resembles an airport. The content of the video implies that it is about a person who has traveled from abroad to Kosovo to participate in Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
She is also heard expressing support for Albin Kurti, the Vetevendosje Movement (LVV) candidate for prime minister.
What's wrong with the content?
The video in question is not authentic as it was generated with artificial intelligence (AI).
As of the writing of this article, the video in question has received over 73 thousand views, over 1 thousand 600 likes, 129 comments and over 600 shares.
Following doubts about the authenticity of the content, hibrid.info used the AI-generated content identification platform, "Hive Moderation", to verify the content.
Analysis conducted by this platform has shown that this has a high probability of being created by this technology.
Similar AI-generated content has been published and handled by hibrid.info (see here and here).
Analyze
A video features a citizen talking about the June 7 elections.
After verification through the "Hive Moderation" platform, hibrid.info found that the content is not real, but generated through artificial intelligence.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Fraud".
rationale
The “Deception” rating is given to informational content that is manipulated in terms of visual (deepfake, cheapfake), audio, or textual content to deceive the audience. This form of deception is usually used to produce false and manipulated content.