The videos are often labelled with hashtags such as “Russian beauty” and the women describe how accomplished Chinese men are.
The woman declares, in Mandarin inflected with a slight accent, that Chinese men should marry “us Russian women.”
Welcome to a flourishing genre on Chinese social media: AI-manipulated videos that use young, purportedly Russian, women to rally support for China-Russia ties, stoke patriotic fervor or make money — and sometimes all three at once. Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend an informal meeting in Beijing, China.A different video shows the woman thanking the Chinese people for supporting Russia through its economic difficulty by buying Russian chocolates from her.
The makers of these videos are trying to capitalise on a market born of China’s current moment in geopolitics, technology and public sentiment.Relations between Russia and China have deepened significantly in recent years, with the countries’ leaders, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, declaring a “no limits” partnership in the face of mounting hostility from the West. Putin visited Beijing last week, where Xi welcomed him with great fanfare.
The Chinese government has often encouraged online nationalism, but there is no indication that it has anything to do with the deepfake videos . There is also a small economy of real Russian influencers, many of them young women, on Chinese social media. It didn’t seem to matter. An automated counter that pops up in one of the account’s videos suggests that the brand of salt being pitched has already been bought 360,000 times across the platform.reached out to the Douyin account with the videos of the manipulated Zahrai, the account holder confirmed in an audio message that he had made the videos. “You set up three things: audio, video and mouth. You can build any video you want,” he said, before unfriending a reporter.
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