Candidate forced to remove AI video

Wednesday, 18 October 2023 06:30

A Swiss People’s Party candidate has been forced to remove an AI generated video which seems to show a political opponent vote for him.

Andreas Glarner, from canton Aargau, posted the video to X – formerly known as Twitter.

It portrayed a deepfake image of a Green national councillor, Sibel Arslan, who’s a Swiss/Turkish dual national.

The video shows her saying ‘I want all Turkish criminals expelled, please vote for the SVP’.

She never said that.

Glarner says the video did have a symbol showing it was generated by AI and titled ‘If Sibel Arslan was honest’.

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