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Scarlett Johansson denies anti-Semitism and calls for laws to protect the public from artificial intelligence after deepfake videos of her and other celebrities created with technology widely circulated on social media this week It’s there.
The AI video adorned the names of the Jewish stars and Kanye West with images of Johansson in a t-shirt with his hands and middle fingers extended. Although fake, the video implies that she and others were responding to the latest anti-Semitic remarks in the West and the swastika shirts he was selling on his Yeezy website It was there.
“In response to anti-Semitic views, my family and friends have been reminded me that AI-generated videos featuring my portraits are being distributed online and gaining traction.” Johansson said in a statement obtained by CNN. “I am a Jewish woman who is not tolerant of any kind of anti-Semitism or hate speech. But I also think that the possibility of hate speech is harboring AI is what accountable. I firmly believe that it is a much bigger threat. Regardless of the AI message, there is a risk of calling for the misuse of AI or losing real-life holds.”
Johansson’s statement continued. “I was unfortunately a very public victim of AI, but the truth is that the threat of AI affects each and every one of us. When it comes to AI, there are some progressive events that do not include the US. It’s a 1,000-foot wave of countries responding in a responsible way. It’s scary that the US government is paralyzed when it comes to passing laws that protect all citizens from the immediate dangers of AI. .”
The fake video also includes AI-created images of Adam Levine, Mira Kunis, Rennie Kravitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Stiller, Natalie Portman and David Schwimmer. I did. It is usually performed at celebratory cultural events.
Johansson is one of the most vocal celebrities to take a stance against the use of AI without consent. Last year, Marvel Star became a lawyer in her battle with Openai after talking about her “creepy-like” composite voice with her, which is used in ChatGpt.
In a statement Wednesday, Johansson called on elected officials to take legislative measures against AI abuse.
“I urge the US government to pass laws that limit AI’s top priorities,” she said. “It’s a bipartisan issue that has a major impact on the immediate future of humanity as a whole.”
The AI video was created by Ori Bejerano. OriBejerano describes himself as an expert in bio-generic AI on Instagram. His original post in the video includes a notification that reads, “This content appears to be real as if it had been digitally crated or changed in AI.”
Written in Hebrew and translated into English by CNN, Bejerano’s Instagram caption reads, “Now is the time to be silent and stop responding to anti-Semitic people like Kanye West,” some reads Masu. “We must request social networks to stop giving the stage to anti-Semitism and hatred.”
Johansson is so far the only famous person in the fake video that speaks against the use of AI, but others have previously opposed the West.
Over the weekend, before the Super Bowl ads aired, “Friends” star Schwimmer begged Elon Musk to block West from X.
“We cannot stop confused prejudice from spitting hateful, ignorant bile… but we can stop giving him a megaphone, Mus, Musk “That’s it,” Schwimmer wrote on Instagram. “Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on the platform, X. This is twice as many Jews as there are. His sick hate speech is a real life violence against Jews. It brings you.”
West, passing through you, disabled his X account late on Sunday night.
Hen Mazzig, co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute, an organization that works to combat Jewish hatred and misinformation across social media, focused on AI videos.
“It’s dangerous to misuse AI. No doubt,” Mazzig writes in X. “But do you know that it’s even more dangerous? Unchecked anti-Semitic hatred that is platformed by millions of people every day.”
