Adolf Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech, which had been filmed in AI-adjusted video clips, has just gone viral. Hitler stated in the speech that the approaching war would “avoid the Jewish race’s extermination in Europe.” Hitler did claim this, but the conversation in the movie clips was actually translated from German to English. According to X, the films have been viewed more than 15 million times and include language that makes it clear that the conversation was an AI sound language.
A highly influenting far-right crime expert known as Dom Lucre on X, who has recently shared child abuse movies, first shared the two films on Thursday.
Lucre claimed in comments that came with the videos on X that he was just” sharing what is news as I usually do” and that the movies are “extremely antisemitic.” Opinions on the clips, however, indicate that viewers have had their own opinions.
One writer with a confirmed X account wrote,” I’m beginning to think we perhaps had lost World War II.” Another disciple wrote,” It seems like these people cared about their country more than anything else.” The 2017 neo-Nazi video Europa: The Last Battle attracted the attention of many people.
Another conspiracy theorist, Owen Benjamin, also made erroneous claims about the AI Hitler videos that showed the dictator “doing not want to go to war and was chastising other countries for not helping the]Jews ]”. More than 3.5 million people have read Benjamin’s post.
X did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.
The video recordings appear to have been taken from a film that was first uploaded to YouTube two months ago by a group called Time Unveiled, which also posted AI-tweeted movies featuring Osama bin Laden, Joseph Stalin, and Hideki Tojo.
The creators claimed to have created the music in the Hitler video using technologies from voice-cloning startup ElevenLabs. ElevenLabs ‘ systems was also in trouble earlier this year when it was employed to help create an AI-generated phone impersonating President Joe Biden. YouTube and ElevenLabs did not respond to requests for comment.
Even though one of Lucre’s articles on X did not receive nearly as much attention as his comments on X, Lucre’s Instagram account is still effective, the picture was taken down over the weekend.
Lucre, whose true name is Dominick McGee, has gained a lot of traction in plot lines because of how frequently he shares QAnon glad and GOP criticism, much of which is accompanied by changed images or videos. His writing is frequently shared by popular politicians, including past president Donald Trump.
Elon Musk physically intervened to reinstate Lucre’s account in July for the first time, which was against company policy because she posted child exploitation images only days previously.
