A California -based digital security firm says it's “a lot of confidence” Viral Footage of Paragladder Which claims to be sucked in the storm in China claims that it is not completely authentic.
55 -year -old Peng Yojiang says he accidentally started flying while testing newly purchased para -gliding equipment in the Kilian mountains in northern China, and a camera on his glider occupied the entire trial, which he probably saw at a height of 27,800 feet.
Reuters investigations Suggests that Yojiang's film includes “fake footage” in the first five seconds, possibly developed by Artificial intelligenceTo justify his story. Reuters has since removed the video from its platform.
“This content is clearly labeled as a third party content and is not confirmed or not verified by Reuters.” Said in a statement.
“When we became familiar with a piece of content that potentially contained AI-generation elements on the Reuters connect platform, we investigated and took it down because this content does not comply with our partner content policy.”
Global News, BBC, Associated Press and the New York Times – along with other shops – shared a document video possibly last week.
Investigations, through which have been done Gatel Security – A company that calls itself the world leading authority on digital media verification and verification – Yojiang's video notes many contradictions, ie its helmet is black at the beginning of the video and changes in white, and its legs are at the beginning.
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Other contradictions given by Reuters include:
- This is in a video format that is different from other videos contained in the compilation
- What does it look like Complete AI video Was uploaded with AI Watermark on Facebook that showed that their device was used to make
- The sound may have been extended from other videos in the compilation to show it integrated
- The “Apollo 2” text (the paralyzed model appearing in other videos) is not worth the manipulation. The letters are rotated, even if some new models can sometimes supply the text, it is still a common weakness in the AI-influential material.
- Peng's legs look unnaturally long and distorted
- The green ground shown in the AI version is not similar to the satellite imagination of the snowy region of the Qilian mountains
While GPS data has been posted by Yojiang on the website xcontestA famous forum of the para -gliding community, suggests that it was flown, later deleted, according to Check Paraglider Jacob Hell, which helps run the forum. The shared flight data is left on the site by Yujiang.
Para gliding experts have raised doubts about Yujiang's claim that its climb was accidental, a debate that it is unlikely that it can be seen wearing a video in the video due to “special heavy mattens”, this item is not commonly used during a test flight.
“These are not things that you usually wear or ready if you were just handing ground to test an arm,” Brad Harris, president of the Tasmani Hang Gliding and Para Glying Association, told Reuters.
Given that some parts of the footage are probably AI-Influx, it is not certain that if Yojiang is actually using special hand-warm-handed equipment shown in the footage.
Former Para gliding Distance World Record Holder, Godfreffer Venus, said that a highly experienced paralyzer could be able to change the climb showed in Yujiang's flight data, and that Yujiang was either “inexperienced” or climbing a goal.
Meanwhile, flight instructor in Australia, Daniel Wayne Wright, told Reuters that a cloud of storms like Yujiang “just not show up on your head and roam you in space. They build in a period of time. It should not have flown.”
In a report published on Wednesday, the Gansu Aeronautical Sports Association said Yujiang had broken the height record. A private group that monitors air sports in the province did not respond to the request for Reuters' opinion and removed its report on Yojiang's flight from his VChat account.
Until Thursday, the association's website blocked.
He also suspended Yujiang for six months. A member of his flight team was suspended for six months after releasing the video without any permission.
– with Reuters files
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