Facts Check: AI Fakes Around New Pope

Pope Leo XIV has only been at the head of the Catholic Church for a few weeks, but AI-generated and manipulated videos of him already circulate many times in social media.

The phenomenon underscores the increasingly complex challenges faced by digital platforms in an era in which artificial intelligence can convincingly replicate public figures, including religious leaders Rome.- YouTube has closed a channel that accumulated almost a million views by publishing sermons supposedly uttered by Pope Leo XIV, sermons it never uttered. The channel, entitled “Sermons of Pope Leo XIV”, had almost 18 thousand subscribers b…