Social**A self-proclaimed "Natasha" actually stole the face and voice of the Ukrainian beauty Olga. (Internet).At a time when the American AI giant OpenAI released the ** generative model Sora caused a global exclamation, the Ukrainian beauty Internet celebrity Olga Loiek (Olga Loiek) released an accusation titled "Someone copied me in China", which caused a lot of panic.
Olga posted on his YouTube channel on January 29 that someone created a non-existent**blonde beauty "Natasha" on Chinese social networks such as Xiaohongshu and Bilibili, whose stolen face and voice came from Olga.
This AI woman named "Natasha" speaks fluent Chinese, claims to have lived in China for eight years, often publishes short ** about life in Russia and China, popularizes Russian knowledge, and then takes advantage of the trend to bring goods for all kinds of Russian products.
What angered Olga was that as a Ukrainian, her family was suffering from war because of Russia, but her AI clone promoted Russia's goodness on Chinese social platforms, promoted Russian products, and said that "Russia will always remember China's help."
Olga said in ** that she complained to major Chinese social media **, but there was no response for several weeks, so she decided to make her own film and publicly expose it on her YouTube channel.
Ukrainian Internet celebrity Olga angrily said that as a Ukrainian, her family has suffered from war due to Russia, but her AI clone is promoting the good of Russia on Chinese social platforms. (*Intercepted).This "Natasha", who has more than 200,000 followers on Xiaohongshu, is obviously well versed in the way of China's Internet traffic. She will not only praise China, saying that she "likes China and wants to buy a house and settle down", but also says that she "wants to marry a Chinese man", and will also throw out controversial social topics such as "whether women want to farm when they move to China".
Olga also revealed in ** that in addition to her own face being stolen by "Natasha", Swedish Internet celebrity Lana Blakely was also changed and appeared on Chinese social platforms.
Lana Blakely's doppelganger and "Natasha" follow a very similar path: praising the hardworking and kind Chinese, indicating that they want to marry their Chinese husband, and they want to settle in China for the rest of their lives, etc.
Regarding Olga's experience, many netizens expressed sympathy under their **, and more netizens expressed fear, saying "I really can't see it". Some netizens who claimed to be from China were "sorry" for what happened to Olga and said that they had helped her report it to relevant Chinese platforms. At present, the account has been deleted in Xiaohongshu.
After this news was in Chinese ***, many netizens left messages under related news: "Some people eat this set" and "lose face and go abroad", and netizens said: "Wealth password is skillful." ”
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, "fake Russian" accounts have appeared on Chinese social media platforms, and they have sung Chinese hymns in unison, and after gaining a lot of fans, they have begun to bring goods, and the sales results are quite impressive.
One of them, "Russian Nana", is particularly popular. This blonde and blue-eyed beauty who "changed her face" through AI claimed to be from Russia, and her most common sentence was "Hello Chinese brothers and sisters", almost every ** is praising China and expressing a great love for Chinese culture.
"Russian Nana" quickly tasted the sweetness as well, with her Douyin followers reaching 1.95 million around March 2022 and nearly 1.75 million followers on the Kuaishou platform.
This blonde and blue-eyed self-proclaimed "Nana" from Russia also changed her face through AI. (Internet).With the help of millions of followers, she has brought Russian products such as beef tendon sausages, chocolates, and wafers on the platform, and the sales volume is considerable.
However, on April 1, 2022, "Russian Nana" was banned indefinitely by the Douyin platform on the grounds of "abusing platform props, impersonating fake characters, and improperly obtaining traffic and fans".
CCTV also issued an appeal two days later, don't let go of this "Nana", you must not let go of this kind of account, and let it go easily.
But surprisingly, "Nana" did not stop there, the account made a comeback two months later, and used the image of "Chinese Nana" to sweep the major short ** platforms with an earthy love song "Love Like Fire", with a total of more than 2 billion times.
In addition to "Nana", "Paul Kochakin" will also become popular in 2022 - the same name as the male protagonist in the famous Soviet novel "How Steel is Made".
Paul Kochagin "claimed in ** a Russian Chechen serviceman who was fighting in Ukraine. He often wears a camouflage uniform, and shares some clips and thoughts of encircling and suppressing the US military in ** with the image of a beard and a big bald head.
For example, he fought an encounter with the US Navy SEALs, shot down the US Reaper drone, and captured a prisoner at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant, which attracted many netizens to leave comments and applaud, and netizens also bought a large number of Russian specialties such as honey, beer, and vodka in their product windows to show their support.
"Paul Kochakin" sells Russian specialties such as honey, beer, vodka and so on the platform. (Internet).However, the image of this "Paul Kochakin" is only the effect after adding special effects and filters, the IP address of the account is from Henan, and the "Ukrainian nuclear power plant" he shows in ** is the cooling tower of the power plant in Luoyang, Henan.
The "Ukrainian nuclear power plant" shown by "Paul Kochakin" in ** was discovered by netizens to be actually a cooling tower of a power plant in Luoyang, Henan. (Internet).Like "Nana", after being cracked down, "Paul Kochakin" gave up the Russian line and turned into "Wang Kangmei", calling himself a "pioneer of resistance to the United States".
In addition to the sympathy of netizens, Olga's experience has also been analyzed by netizens, judging from the number and diversity of fake accounts and fake anchors, an industry should have been formed. There are specialized technology companies that steal live-action footage and integrate and launch user templates that make it easy for ordinary people to get started with fake videos and operations.
Technology ** "Fast Technology" reported on Tuesday (February 20) that the tool for using real portraits to create clone people is quite mature, and the operation team of Clone Olga uses an AI portrait cloning software called Heygen. The software** isn't expensive, with even the most expensive commercial version costing only $72 per month.
There are also a large number of AI delivery tutorials on the Internet, such as "unpopular gameplay, live streaming of Russian products", "AI digital human Katyusha brings goods to make a lot of money", etc.
One of the articles summarizes the AI production process into three steps: 1. Find a beautiful blogger account on YouTube**; 2. Clone the beautiful blogger as a digital person; 3. Post-processing through editing software – this is exactly how Olga becomes "Natasha".
The article also teaches everyone, "In addition to bringing goods in the window, you can also apply for the first-class creator income and double-pipe income", and said that "at present, Douyin and Kuaishou have a high tolerance for this kind of real digital person", and it is recommended that dozens of numbers in the fast matrix be together**.
Some people have written that the rise of AI face-swapping technology coincides with the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war and becomes a hot topic, which makes Russians the hardest hit area by "fake foreigners".
These "fake foreigners" have opened up this new path of "patriotic business" by virtue of the heat of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the natural anti-Western stance of the Chinese, and the national pride provided by "foreigners love China".
According to incomplete statistics, many accounts related to "Russia" on major platforms have accumulated more than 100,000 followers in two months, and some accounts have brought more than 10,000 goods in less than a month, which seems to be a good business to "make quick money".
But as CCTV said when criticizing "Russian Nana", this business "not only occupies public resources, but also consumes the patriotism of netizens, and is also a fraud and disrupts social order", "may even cause foreign affairs problems", and now there is one more thing: hurting the national feelings of other countries.
And this kind of business has been repeatedly banned on major platforms, which makes people want to ask, who is supporting it? Who's paying?