{"id":6418,"date":"2023-02-27T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2024-06-20T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T22:06:19","slug":"the-case-of-daniel-smith-deepfake-expert-and-recognition-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/the-case-of-daniel-smith-deepfake-expert-and-recognition-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The case of Daniel Smith: Deepfake expert and \u201crecognition of reality\u201d<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/a> (in Serbian) was published on 05\/02\/2023<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The web portal Danas<\/a> published an interview with a certain Daniel Smith, who is supposedly a British expert on international relations and security with a focus on the countries of the Western Balkans. After the user Mirko Rados published a series of tweets on Twitter last night in which he argues why he thinks Smith is a fictional character, Smith’s Twitter account was deleted. FakeNews Tragac points to elements of Smith’s \u201cphotograph\u201d typical of photorealistic illustrations created with the help of artificial intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter user<\/a> Mirko Rados noticed several illogicalities in the presentation of the alleged British expert Daniel Smith. Among them, he states that it is not possible to find scientific references on Google that would support Smith’s expertise in international relations and security \u201cwith a focus on the countries of the Western Balkans\u201d. In addition, Smith made too many linguistic mistakes on his Twitter, untypical for a native English speaker. Rados cites examples of omission of articles (\u201cHague\u201d \/ \u201cthe Hague\u201d), inconsistencies in spelling (American \/ British), as well as one tweet in English in which the Albanian word for circus<\/em> was found – \u201ccirk\u201d. Not long after Mirko Rados’s post went viral, Daniel Smith’s Twitter profile<\/a> was shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who is Daniel Smith the self-proclaimed international relations expert? After Smith gave a recent interview to Danas I decided to dig deeper into who he really is.\ud83e\uddf5#serbia<\/a> #kosovo<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/opZsc51426<\/a><\/p>— Mirko Rado\u0161 (@frankblack2000) February 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>