Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and In­for­ma­tion Fred­dy Nanez has dis­missed the video show­ing US mis­sile fire on a boat churn­ing across the sea in the south­ern Caribbean.

In a post yes­ter­day, Nanez stat­ed, “It seems that (US Sec­re­tary of State) Mar­co Ru­bio con­tin­ues to lie to his pres­i­dent: af­ter lead­ing him in­to a dead end, he now of­fers him a (thus proven) AI video as proof.’ What does Gem­i­ni say about this video? Based on the video pro­vid­ed, it was most like­ly cre­at­ed us­ing ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI).”

He added, “While I can­not con­firm with cer­tain­ty the ex­act tools used, sev­er­al el­e­ments sug­gest it was gen­er­at­ed by AI: The video shows a ship be­ing at­tacked and then ex­plod­ing in a way that looks like a sim­pli­fied, al­most car­toon­ish an­i­ma­tion, rather than a re­al­is­tic de­pic­tion of an ex­plo­sion.

“The video con­tains mo­tion ar­ti­facts and a lack of re­al­is­tic de­tail, com­mon in AI-gen­er­at­ed videos. The wa­ter, in par­tic­u­lar, looks high­ly stylised and un­nat­ur­al.”

He con­tin­ued, “The video con­tent ap­pears to be com­posed of dif­fer­ent el­e­ments, in­clud­ing the text ‘UN­CLAS­SI­FIED’ and a wa­ter­mark of un­known ori­gin. These el­e­ments, along with the lack of de­tail, are com­mon in AI-gen­er­at­ed con­tent. This type of video, of­ten re­ferred to as a deep­fake or AI-gen­er­at­ed video, it’s be­com­ing more com­mon. It can be used for a va­ri­ety of pur­pos­es, in­clud­ing en­ter­tain­ment, dis­in­for­ma­tion, or artis­tic ex­pres­sion.”

Nanez added, “Enough of Mar­co Ru­bio’s en­cour­age­ment of war and at­tempts to shed blood on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s hands.”