From AFP Fact Check
Altered BBC broadcast on Zelensky, using expletive, circulates online
By Daniel Patrick Galgano
After a calamitous White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky over aid for the war-torn country, a clip circulating online appeared to show a BBC reporter using an expletive to describe the Oval Office encounter. But the footage has been altered; the journalist and broadcaster said the segment was not authentic, and experts said the audio was likely manipulated using artificial intelligence.
“Amazing things happen when the BBC forgets to cut its reporter’s feed while covering the Trump-Zelensky fiasco,” says a March 5, 2025 X post with thousands of interactions...
Hany Farid, the chief science officer at GetReal Labs, a cybersecurity company focused on combating malicious artificial intelligence threats (archived here), analyzed the video's audio using two programs designed to distinguish between human and artificially generated voices.
"Once we separated the audio, we ran the purported fabricated audio through our models. Two of our models classified the audio as likely AI-generated," he said in a March 7 email...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
