A.I USED TO IMPERSONATE FORMER SUDAN PRESIDENT OMAR AL BASHIR
By Paul Ndiho
AI-driven voice cloning technology is being utilized to impersonate Omar al-Bashir, the former leader of Sudan, in a campaign that has gained hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok. This adds to the confusion and disinformation in Sudan’s civil war and exacerbates a complex situation. Stricter regulations and media literacy are needed to combat the spread of misinformation and mitigate the unintended consequences of such campaigns. For more, via Skype, VOA’s Paul Ndiho spoke to Chukwemeka Monyei, a lawyer and cyber security expert currently in Abuja.
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