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00:04Take a look at this woman.
00:05She appears to be a German-speaking political commentator
00:09analyzing the election in Saxony, Anhalt.
00:12Now look at this man, discussing the war in Iran
00:15and China, and this supposed expert
00:18explaining the change in global order.
00:20At first glance, particularly when scrolling through social media quickly,
00:24you might mistake these videos for real people.
00:27But they don't exist.
00:28In reality, they're AI-generated and researchers say they form part of a coordinated network
00:35that's produced almost 1,900 political YouTube videos.
00:40These German-language videos cover everything from the wars in Iran and Ukraine
00:44to China, the United States and German politics.
00:48Researchers at the German non-profit CEMAS identified 47 channels using these artificial presenters.
00:55Together, the channels attracted more than 66,000 subscribers,
01:00while the videos recorded 7.5 million views and almost 30,000 comments.
01:05Nearly 800 addressed German domestic politics, criticizing Chancellor Friedrich Mertz's government.
01:11And compared to previous content, these videos are getting more sophisticated.
01:16The thing is, with AI-generated content, it's getting better by the minute, actually.
01:21So if we were to talk to each other in three months, we would have an entirely new set of
01:27quality that we're looking at.
01:28CEMAS has not been able to identify who created the channels
01:32or determine whether the motivation was political, financial or a combination of both.
01:38But researchers warn that as the technology improves,
01:41networks like this could manufacture entire groups of apparently independent experts,
01:46making some political narratives appear more accepted than they really are.
01:54CEMAS is the easiest way to see this.
01:56The more you can see, this plan to communicate with AI-generated content,
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