Deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV gather hundreds of thousands of views online

Vatican communications team says it has blocked hundreds of accounts posting AI-generated deepfakes since the start of Pope Leo XIV's pontificate.

Some of the videos gather hundreds of thousands of views. Recently, for example, a fake 25-minute video of Pope Leo XIV commenting on the murder of Charlie Kirk racked up 445,000 views in a week.

The first viral deepfake of Pope Leo XIV was an address condemning colonialism and praising the leader of a coup in Burkina Faso. It gathered around a million views before the video was taken down.

Leo XIV himself has related how an acquaintance anxiously asked after his health following the appearance of a deepfake in which he supposedly collapses outside St Peter's Basilica.

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Deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV gather hundreds of thousands of views online

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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