Deepfake video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling Ukrainians to surrender is shared online

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling soldiers to "lay down arms" and "surrender" was taken down after it was shared online.The clip saw a rather motionless Zelenskyy standing behind a podium announcing his surrender to Russia's invasion while calling his troops to give in to the Russian forces.

He carried on declaring he has "decided to return Donbas" to Russia, adding: "My advice to you is to lay down arms and return to your families.

It is not worth it dying in this war. My advice to you is to live. I am going to do the same." The video was played on social media such as Facebook and YouTube, and even on Telegram and Russian social network VKontakte.But experts have quickly spotted the giving details suggesting the video was "amateurish".The deepfake technology involves an image or video in which a person or object is visually or audibly manipulated to say and do something that is fabricated.Minutes after the video was released, President Zelenskyy himself posted a Facebook video denying that he had asked Ukrainians to lay down their arms and calling the fake a childish provocation.AI experts pointed out that the Zelenskyy imposter has a light skin tone and a deeper voice than the real president.In the video, his head appears too big for the body – suggesting that it has been digitally attached to and is more pixelated than the body.Mounir Ibrahim, who works for Truepic, a company which roots out online deepfakes, told Daily Beast: "The fact that it's so poorly done is a bit of a head-scratcher. For more stories from the Daily Star, sign up to one of our newsletters here."You can clearly see the difference — this is not the best deepfake we've seen, not even close."Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy.