Overview
- AFP’s analysis flagged the clip’s visuals as 99.9% likely AI-generated using Hive Moderation and its audio as 99% likely synthetic via Hiya.com on the InVID‑WeVerify tool.
- The 15‑second vertical video was reposted across TikTok, Facebook, Threads, X and YouTube in multiple languages, with one TikTok alone nearing 800,000 views.
- Online claims identifying the subject as “Emilios George Ades Georgiades” are unsupported; Brazil’s foreign ministry lists 15 nationals dead and 26 missing, and that name is on neither list.
- Investigators traced amplification to accounts such as Forbidden News and noted the uploader’s channel labels its content as AI, with six similar soldier‑in‑tears videos posted since late October totaling about 3.3 million views, a format aligned with new consumer AI video tools.
- In separate field reporting, volunteers drawn from Ukraine’s prisons are serving with the 59th Assault Brigade under the June 2024 sentence‑commutation law until the war ends.