On Instagram and then TikTok, a video showing Joe Biden singing the song
Baby Shark
was widely shared.
But it is actually a montage made using the deepfake technique, reports the
Associated Press
news agency .
The editing, which uses the images of a speech delivered last Friday by the American president, is deliberately crude.
The synchronization between the lips of the Head of State and the music is far from perfect, but the video still accumulated more than 400,000 views on Instagram before its deletion, specifies BFMTV.
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The debate on deepfakes revived
The Briton behind this video assured the
Associated Press
that it was just a joke and that he did not mean to spread false information in any way.
He also explained that he had made this montage using free software, easily accessible online.
The publication of this video on social networks did not fail to make opponents of Joe Biden react as the mid-term elections approached.
Something to revive the controversy over the use of this deepfake technology and its impact on public debate.
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