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Malay Mail
2 days ago
- Malay Mail
Police investigate TikTok scam using AI-generated video of Malaysian King
KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 — Police have received a police report about a 32-second video using images of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa said the video, which can be accessed via the TikTok account @DATUKZULKARNAIN77, is believed to have been produced using AI technology and was most likely part of a scam. 'The video appears to show Sultan Ibrahim giving a speech regarding an offer of financial assistance to Malaysians and urging people experiencing financial hardship to contact a person named 'Datuk Zulkarnain'. 'The police stress that the content of the video is fake and is believed to have been produced using AI technology,' he said in a statement here today. An investigation is ongoing under Section 419 of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act, he added. — Bernama
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
People Cannot Believe Donald Trump Shared This "Disgusting" Fake AI Video Of Barack Obama Being Arrested
Last night, the president of the United States shared a fake AI video of former president Barack Obama being arrested by the FBI. The clip begins with a speech from Obama, during which he says, "No one, especially the president, is above the law." Related: Then, later in the video, an AI-rendered clip of Trump and Obama sitting together in the White House appears. Soon, the two are surrounded by FBI agents... ...but the agents shift their focus to Obama. The former president is pushed down to his knees — much to Trump's apparent delight. Related: AI Obama's hands are brought behind his back... ...and he's arrested. The clip — which surpassed 1.6 million views on X after news of Trump's post circulated on the platform — ends with AI Obama behind bars. Related: The MAGA core was all for it. But others? Not so much. A lot of people called out racist undertones. One person wrote, "This is not funny. It is particularly disgusting to show an innocent Black person getting arrested--particularly one who has spent a lifetime trying to overcome the stereotypes that racists like Trump favor." "this who y'all voted for?" another asked. Related: Others pointed out what could be viewed as hypocrisy, considering Trump was previously convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in one case and found liable for sexual abuse in another. Ergo: Timing-wise, Trump's post coincides with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's claims that she has evidence of an 'Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert Trump's 2016 Victory and Presidency.' In a tweet, she wrote: "Their goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people." According to the New York Times, Democrats have called her claims baseless. This, however, does not appear to be stopping Trump from bolstering the idea. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments. Also in In the News: Also in In the News: Also in In the News:
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump posts fake AI-video showing Obama being arrested with ‘YMCA' and meme turned hate symbol
President Donald Trump reposted a video on Truth Social that showed a fake, artificially rendered scene of former President Barack Obama being arrested. The July 20 post on social was a TikTok video by an account named "neo8171," with a montage of Democratic elected officials saying "no one is above the law." While it is unclear where the clips were from, Democrats have used that phrase when talking about Trump's criminal cases, including an arrest in Georgia and a felony conviction in New York. The video then shows Pepe the Frog, a popular internet meme that was added to a hate symbol database during the 2016 election. As "YMCA" starts to play, the video shows Trump and Obama sitting in the Oval Office, and an artificially rendered scene shows FBI agents dragging Obama out of his chair and cuffing his hands behind his back. The fake video then shows Obama in an orange jumpsuit in jail. A representative for Obama declined to comment about the fake AI video. Trump and Pepe the Frog: 2016 campaign turned meme political. Then it became a hate symbol #ArrestObama trends on Truth Social after Tulsi Gabbard claims On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a press release saying she had evidence that the Obama administration after the 2016 election produced "politicized intelligence that was used as the basis for countless smears seeking to delegitimize President Trump's victory." In 2020, a Republican-led, bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee backed the conclusion of the intelligence agencies that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in favor of Trump. Trump had long said the investigation into his campaign was a hoax. Ranking Member on the Intelligence Committee Rep. Jim Himes, D-Connecticut, said Gabbard's new claim is a "dangerous lie," while speaking on CBS News' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," on July 20. He said Gabbard is using a "sleight of hand" by focusing on intelligence about Russia's failed voting infrastructure manipulation rather than Russia's meddling to discredit Trump's 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Appearing on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Gabbard said she intended to send her findings to the Department of Justice and the FBI for criminal referral. Trump also shared excerpts from Gabbard's interviews to Truth Social. 'As is always the case, President Trump was right about the Obama-Biden administration's clear involvement in the greatest witch hunt in American history and the genesis of the decade-long hoax saga that tore our nation apart and undermined the will of the people," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in an emailed statement. "The President and his entire administration are committed to unearthing wrongdoing and holding any individual accountable for this gross abuse of power and blatant conspiracy against President Trump and his supporters.' Pepe the Frog became political, then hate symbol, during 2016 election The frog doodle in clown accessories that flashes in the video is known as Pepe the Frog, and its appearance in Trump's social media posts has sparked interest before. Pepe the Frog started as a character from a comic series, "Boy's Club" by Matt Furie in 2005, according to Know Your Meme. While the somewhat sad-looking frog did not have racist or antisemitic origins, its proliferation through the internet as a meme led to its adaptation into something of a symbol for single men who felt they were on the social outskirts, Know Your Meme editor Brad Kim told the New York Times in 2016. But Kim said it became political when Trump shared a Trump-ified version of Pepe in October 2015. "Pepe plugged into the ideology of the alt-right because it was a reaction against the people they call 'normies,'" Kim told the New York Times. "Pepe had been a symbol of the disenfranchised, social outcasts. It was Trump's natural audience." In 2016, the Anti-Defamation League added Pepe the Frog to its list of hate symbols, though the organization notes many uses of this meme are still not rooted in bigotry or hate. "The number of 'alt right' Pepe memes has grown, a tendency exacerbated by the controversial and contentious 2016 presidential election," Pepe's ADL page states. "However, because so many Pepe the Frog memes are not bigoted in nature, it is important to examine use of the meme only in context." Contributing: Kevin Johnson, Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at kcrowley@ Follow her on X and TikTok @kinseycrowley or Bluesky at @ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump posts video of Obama being arrested on Truth Social. It is fake
Free Malaysia Today
2 days ago
- Free Malaysia Today
Police report lodged over scam video using AI-generated likeness of Agong
Bukit Aman CCID director Rusdi Isa said the content of the video is fake. PETALING JAYA : Police have received a report about a 32-second video using the likeness of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim generated by artificial intelligence. Bukit Aman commercial crime investigation department director Rusdi Isa said the video on the TikTok account @DATUKZULKARNAIN77 is believed to have been produced using AI technology and is most likely part of a scam. 'The video appears to show Sultan Ibrahim giving a speech regarding an offer of financial assistance to Malaysians and urging people experiencing financial hardship to contact a person named 'Datuk Zulkarnain'. 'Police stress that the content of the video is fake and is believed to have been produced using AI technology,' Bernama reported Rusdi as saying. He said an investigation is ongoing under Section 419 of the Penal Code for cheating by impersonation, and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act for improper use of network facilities.
New York Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest
President Trump reposted a fake video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office, as Trump administration officials continue to accuse Mr. Obama of trying to harm Mr. Trump's campaign during the 2016 election, and the president seeks to redirect conversation from the Epstein files. The short video, which appears to have been generated by artificial intelligence and posted on TikTok before being reposted on Mr. Trump's Truth Social account on Sunday, comes days after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the latest in a series of reports from the Trump administration trying to undermine the eight-year-old assessment that Russia favored the election of Mr. Trump. The video appears to be manipulated footage of an Oval Office meeting that took place in November 2016 between Mr. Obama, then the president, and Mr. Trump, who days earlier had defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, in the election. The fake video purports to show F.B.I. agents bursting into the meeting, pushing Mr. Obama into a kneeling position and putting him in handcuffs as Mr. Trump looks on smiling, while the song 'Y.M.C.A.' by the Village People plays. Later, the fake video shows Mr. Obama in an orange jumpsuit pacing in a cell. The start of the video shows a compilation of actual footage of Democratic leaders, including Mr. Obama and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr, saying, 'no one is above the law.' Mr. Obama's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the video. Mr. Trump regularly reposts A.I.-generated or mocked-up videos and photographs on his Truth Social account. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said last week that the latest report released by her offices showed a 'treasonous conspiracy in 2016' by top Obama administration officials to harm Mr. Trump. She said she would make a criminal referral to the F.B.I. based on recently released documents. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
