TikTok, one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, hosted an interesting video recently. The subject of this video is MrBeast, one of the world’s most famous YouTubers. In the video, MrBeast says that he has launched the world’s largest iPhone 15 campaign and will give iPhone 15 Pro to 10 thousand people for only 2 dollars. Yes, everything looks normal so far. However, the truth is that the video in question does not belong to MrBeast. The video created with deepfake technology aims to defraud people.
Our readers who follow MrBeast know; This YouTuber shoots videos with huge productions. In one of his videos, MrBeast even bought all the cars sold in a random car dealership and gave them as gifts to ordinary people. In summary, it is not unusual for MrBeast to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single video. Therefore, the video that went viral on TikTok was thought to be real. YouTuber, on the other hand, reproached social media platforms for deepfake technology.
Here is that deepfake video and MrBeast’s description:
It is unknown how many people the video reached and how many people gave $2…
Details about the video that went viral on TikTok are quite limited. You know social media, a post can easily reach millions of people the moment it is shared. Therefore, it is possible to say that the content in question suffered the same fate, and even if only a thousand people who saw the video were fooled, there was a profit of 2,000 dollars. Let’s say this is a hypothetical number. It is unclear how many people the video reached and how many people were tricked into paying $2.
How did TikTok allow the video in question to be published?
MrBeast’s deepfake video was published with ads on TikTok. Platform officials say that videos with advertising content are analyzed with artificial intelligence-supported technologies, and videos that do not comply with TikTok’s advertising policies are not accepted. So how did MrBeast’s deepfake video reach TikTok users, even for a few hours?
The only explanation that can be made here is that artificial intelligence lost to another artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence tools used to create the deepfake video were much better than TikTok’s own artificial intelligence, which prevented the deepfake video from being detected as fake…
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