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ElevenLabs’ AI voice generation ‘very likely’ used in a Russian influence operation
Generative AI has a plethora of well-documented misuses, and now, it appears to be cropping up in state influence operations.
The report describes a Russian-tied campaign designed to undermine Europe’s support for Ukraine, dubbed “Operation Undercut,” that prominently used AI-generated voiceovers on fake or misleading “news” videos. The videos, which targeted European audiences, attacked Ukrainian politicians as corrupt or questioned the usefulness of military aid to Ukraine, among other themes. Recorded Future attributed the activity to the Social Design Agency, a Russia-based organization that the U.S. government sanctioned this March for running “ a network of over 60 websites that impersonated genuine news organizations in Europe, then used bogus social media accounts to amplify the misleading content of the spoofed websites.” All this was done “on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation,” the U.S. State Department said at the time.
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