Foreign page uses AI videos to stir outrage against Muslims

The posts originate from Sri Lanka. Photo: Facebook
A foreign-run Facebook page is posting videos is attempting to sow regilous discord in Australia.
The page appears to show Muslims women complaining about life in Australia, but the clips are AI-generated.
The Inside Australia page, which is operated by a user in Sri Lanka, regularly posts clips that appear to show immigrants making demands on the Australian government or insisting on receiving special treatment.
A series of recent posts show Muslims complaining about the lack of halal food in Australia.
Halal food complies with Islamic law, specifically animal products.
In one video, a woman eating a chicken sandwich says, âI just bought this chicken wrap and itâs not halalâ.

The clips have signs of AI, including garbled text in the background. Photo: Facebok/AAP
âThere is no clear warning anywhere on the label. Why canât companies just clearly say if itâs halal or not? Itâs not that hard. This needs to change.â
Other clips have titles like âMuslim woman complainsâ or âSheâs mad because her protein bar is not halal!â
However, the immigrants shown are all AI creations.
One video with more than 1.6 million views shows an interviewer asking a woman in a burka what her biggest challenge has been since moving to Australia, and she responds that âthere is too much pork in the shopsâ.
This video, along with many of the others posted by the Inside Australia page, is synthetic.
Using a screenshot from the video to search Google Images reveals it contains a hidden digital watermark indicating it is AI-generated.

âShicketâ and âpork lugsâ on the butcherâs menu are AI errors. Photo: Facebook/AAP
In this video, the interviewerâs microphone cover also has garbled text reading: âAus [unintelligible word] reportâ, but does not match any major media organisationâs logo.
The background sign at the butcherâs shop appears to offer stange products, including âpork lugsâ and âshicketâ.
The pageâs videos show several other signs of being made by AI, including subjects with oddly smooth skin and clothing and erratic lip-syncing and accents.
One video shows the tell-tale AI sign of gibberish language in the background on a cafeâs menu sign, with several items on the right side written in illegible text.
In another video, a woman is holding a burger that suddenly seems to awkwardly go back into a completely unopened package.
A woman holding a protein bar in one video claims âI just ate thisâ â but the bar packaging clearly hasnât been opened.
A further video shows an interviewee morphing into a completely different woman about halfway through, with larger eyes and bolder eyebrows, as she turns to address the camera.
A protest about fast-food chains not offering halal products at a KFC restaurant appears in another video.
The crowd of protesters can be heard chanting the Arabic expression âwallahâ, but none of those visible in the clip actually open their mouths.
Screenshots from Inside Australiaâs synthetic videos have been shared by other Facebook pages, with one post falsely claiming a Muslim woman had âgone viralâ after discovering a chicken sandwich she bought âwas not halalâ.
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