A deepfake of President Putin meets the real President Putin in a public Q&A session and asks him, 'Is there a shadow warrior?'
On December 14, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin held the annual year-end question and answer event. During this event, in response to questions from the public, ``a video of a deepfake that reproduces President Putin's appearance and voice asking a question to President Putin'' was shown, and there was a scene in which President Putin responded to his own deepfake. .
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President Putin usually holds a large-scale event around December where he answers questions from the public and reporters. The event was not held in 2022, and was held for the first time in two years on December 14, 2023, so it attracted a lot of attention.
At the event, questions were asked from reporters from Russia and other countries, as well as Russian citizens, and President Putin expressed his opposition to the West and promoted the recovery of the Russian economy. Meanwhile, a situation occurred in which a deep fake of President Putin appeared as a 'question from the Russian people.' You can check the scene in question in the movie below.
President Putin's deepfake asks President Putin himself, 'Is it true that there is a Kagemusha?' - YouTube
The layout of the venue is like this. President Putin is sitting at the table shown in the lower right, and the image of the questioner is displayed on the screen shown in the upper left. However, if you look closely at the screen, you can see that an image of a person resembling President Putin is displayed. The image of President Putin on the screen was actually a deepfake video of President Putin created by a student at St. Petersburg State University.
The real President Putin is on the left, and the deepfake version of President Putin is on the right. The deepfake version of President Putin asked in a voice similar to President Putin, ``Is it true that you have many shadow warriors?What do you think about the danger that AI poses to our lives?''
In response to a question about deepfakes, Putin said: 'You speak with a voice that sounds like me. I realized that there must be only one person who can speak with my voice. Who is that one person? It's me.'' ``By the way, you're my first Kagemusha,'' he said, expressing concern about deepfakes and denying the Kagemusha suspicions.
The reporters present at the venue were smiling bitterly in front of the series of responses.
In addition, in 2020, President Putin denied the existence of a Kagemusha, saying, ``Although a proposal to create a Kagemusha has been submitted, we did not implement it.''
President Putin officially denies the existence of Kagemusha - GIGAZINE
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