Russian military commanders are most likely sending Vladimir Putin fake, AI-generated videos depicting victories that never took place on the front lines in Ukraine, the Financial Times reports, citing sources close to the Russian leader. According to the FT’s sources, Putin’s determination to secure a battlefield victory is driving his generals to exaggerate the extent of their territorial gains.
“When someone reports that they’ve captured a town, they boast to the colonel, the colonel boasts to the general, the general reports to the lieutenant general, who passes the information on to the General Staff, and the General Staff reports to the supreme commander. And by the time everyone has finished reporting, our troops have already withdrawn,” one of the publication’s sources said.
According to her, orders are then issued to attack the next positions based on false reports that the previous ones have been captured, even though Russian troops are not actually there.
“As a result, both sides are suffering enormous losses. That’s why Stalin used to execute people who did such things,” the source added.
AI-generated images of battlefield “successes”
The Financial Times reports that dozens of fake AI-generated videos are already circulating, purporting to show the capture of towns and villages in Ukraine. While these initially appeared on the blogs of Russian pro-war propagandists, they are now being included in official reports.
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