The government broadcasts disinformation with a video generated by AI
The video, lasting thirty seconds, was published on May 27 on @Gouvernementfr accounts. The content generated by AI presents a fictitious resistant which distributes a newspaper during the Second World War before being captured and then celebrating the liberation of Paris, in 1944. The scenes were inspired by the testimony of Madeleine Riffaud, resistant, according to the teams of the GIS questioned by The world.
The government publishes a video full of errors
The use of the AI is well reported, but a flagrant historical error has slipped: a soldier carrying a helmet similar to that of the Germans appears with the resistance fighters at the time of the liberation. Before the deletion of the video, many signaled these inconsistencies. Even if deleted, others have resting it on social networks.
More and more accounts are posting historical content generated by AI with many errors. Historians are concerned about it as the medievalist William Blanc on Bluesky. The expert analyzed an AI video on Joan of Arc which is full of errors: presence of a tricolor flag, soldiers of the First World War, etc. According to him, you have to “Gedinize like plague” of these attractive videos but to “Historically false speech”.
In addition to comments on the historical inaccuracies of AI video, many were indignant at the replacement of artists with this technology. Especially since real images of resistance exist.
The director of the GIS, Michaël Nathan, assumes the use of AI with the World. “The teams have daily the challenge of adapting the content and the forms of narration to the new uses of the audiences, especially on social networks”he justifies.
The IA video will be published again
The GIS plans to publish the video AI but corrected again. Michaël Nathan specifies that “AI tools are never used alone and each script is prepared and validated by agents, ministries and specialists, based on reliable and sourced elements. The visual translation of the script has not, however, be viewed by the latter, but the new version that will be published has been verified by historians of the Foundation of Resistance”.
The government service recalls its usual work with the archives of the French Resistance. “In order to inform the general public about historical episodes, we very frequently use archive videos with the support of INA but also by meeting the French by collecting numerous testimonies”underlines Michaël Nathan.
