A fake video on Tik Tok reproduces the image of a little girl who looks like Kata and makes her speak with a fake and metallic voice generated by artificial intelligence systems. The content is 'fake' and would like to allude to the 5-year-old girl Kataleya who disappeared in Florence on June 10th. The existence of this video reports this morning the newspaper Il Tirreno explaining that it runs in a profile where only content referring to missing or dead people is published.
"I want to go home to my parents, I miss my mom too much," says the voice that does not sound like a small child even if she introduces herself as Kata. "Please help me - he continues - if anyone has seen my robbers contact the police. I hope this video will accelerate my finding, every second is precious, the more time passes, the more difficult the way back is". The video has about 40,000 likes, hundreds of comments. It ends with an authentic photo of Kata. Many users are disoriented, someone thinks it is really Kata - but it is not -, someone grasps the certainty that she is alive and has returned home. But others warn them that the Tik Tok profile does not give real information. He posts similar videos of Schumacher, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Giulia Tramontano and Denise Pipitone.
People, though not all, believe it or can believe it and it's a problem. Professor Antonio Cisternino, president of the computer system of the University of Pisa, says: "Technology is now within everyone's reach. There are many software and applications that exploit artificial intelligence in this way, it is not too difficult - he adds - The quality is not even the best, the face is animated but the image remains 'flat'. Anyone can use generative AI technology. Such operations follow sensationalism. Leverage is not informative, there is no social function. It is worrying, sooner or later legislators will have to intervene. Apart from being macabre, what is the point? There are none. You do nothing but generate feelings of sadness or even worse in the child's loved ones".
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The point in the prosecutor's office in the afternoon
There will be a summit with investigators in the afternoon to take stock of the situation on the search for Kata, the 5-year-old girl, Peruvian, who disappeared from the former Astor hotel on June 10. The investigators will plan the next activities in the light of the investigative data collected by the Carabinieri del ros and the investigative unit of the provincial command of Florence.