Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)
Freedom and Justice Party president Dragan Djilas has announced that he will seek legal means to prevent Pink TV from further broadcasting the AI-fabricated video clips in which he and other members of the opposition appear to be giving offensive statements.
“This is not a satire but rather a classic case of defrauding the public. A great many people believed that Marinika [Tepic] and I really did utter those words. And that’s why [the clips] have been featured so many times in Pink TV’s programming,” Djilas told the Aug. 16 edition of the Danas daily, in response to Pink TV owner and executive producer Zeljko Mitrovic calling the videos “satirical entertainment.”
Djilas insisted that if Serbia had a genuine government, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media would have reacted and “forbidden this deliberate fraud.” But since there are no such government structures, he said, he himself “will try to get a court order proscribing the broadcasting of such content, because tomorrow they might depict someone from the opposition saying [he or she] wants to murder the president of state, [or] has ties to criminal gangs or anything else that the public will think is true,” the politician concluded.
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