Jakarta – The appearance of an AI (artificial intelligence) video showing President Joko Widodo giving a speech in English and Mandarin at a business meeting is widely circulating on social media.
Responding to this, Indonesian Communicologist Emrus Sihombing reminded the public to be alert and not be easily influenced by hoax content circulating on social media. Especially ahead of the 2024 elections.
“The public must increase vigilance because the circulation of hoax content is considered quite massive recently, especially approaching the momentum of the 2024 election.” Emrus said.
The AI video can give rise to multiple interpretations, as if President Joko Widodo is part of an interest group in China.
“The video narrating that President Joko Widodo gave a speech using Mandarin is clearly a hoax to lead to negative opinions that President Joko Widodo is bringing China’s interests to Indonesia,” continued Emrus.
From the search results, it was found that the video was an edit using Artificial Intelligence of the video of President Joko Widodo’s speech in 2015 at the Gala Dinner in the United States.
“The public must be very alert and increase their understanding of checking and reviewing information whose origins are unclear because it is very dangerous for national stability,” concluded Emrus.
The Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) has also been advised to act quickly to take down hoax and deepfake content in the form of images, videos or sounds from AI which are predicted to mushroom in the 2024 general election.
