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Liars: German national TV caught using AI images of fake ICE arrest

Germany’s ZDF public broadcaster has come under fire over an episode of its flagship heute journal news programme after it emerged it broadcast an AI-generated…

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Wrong scenes from 2022 and an AI video in the news post: "Today, the ZDF admits mistakes and apologizes to the audience.

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Donald Trump is regarded as an enemy image in public-law television, including the Foreigners' Office ICE. In today's journal, unmarked and uncommented, an AI video created by anti-Trump people was used – only after fierce criticism one now admits to ZDF's manual mistakes. While Dunja Hayali warned against the spread of fake news and disinformation by AI-generated videos when he moderated a contribution to the U.S. Foreigners' Office ICE's actio…

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On Tuesday evening, ZDF news manager Anna Gellinek interrupted "today's journal" in her own cause. The reason was the unmarked use of AI-generated images in a previous issue of the ZDF news programme, which had triggered great criticism. ZDF apologizes.

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In the current programme, deputy editor-in-chief of ZDF, Anne Gellinek, speaks of "craftsman's mistakes".

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Wrong scenes from 2022 and an AI video in the news post: In the "Today's Journal" ZDF admits mistakes and apologizes to the audience. ZDF apologized in the "today's journal" for mistakes in a post of the news broadcast. In the current broadcast, the presenter and deputy editor-in-chief Anne Gellinek spoke of a "double mistake" and explicitly apologized to the audience. According to ZDF, the Sunday's article on the US migration agency ICE contain…

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