An AI-generated video posted on Facebook features a digitally created foreign-looking avatar endorsing detained religious leader and senatorial candidate Apollo Quiboloy who is running under the PDP Laban party led by former president Rodrigo Duterte. The person in the video is not real.
Aside from the use of an AI avatar, the Facebook reel posted by Dyan Hrtlz on April 19 contains factual inaccuracies about the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) church founded by Quiboloy and the Roman Catholic Church.
The avatar in Dyan Hrtlz’s video was created using Pippit, an AI software formerly known as CapCut Commerce Pro, which allows users to select preset avatars and sync lip movements with custom scripts. The avatar in the video is known as “Mat outdoors.”
A Google reverse image search confirms the same avatar has appeared in multiple AI-generated videos, some of which are clearly labeled as AI-generated.
Dyan Hrtlz’s post made no such disclosure.
As of this writing, the video has received 1,300 reactions, 100 comments and 1,900 shares. The Facebook page was created last Nov. 26 and has 6,400 followers.
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