Several Facebook pages posted a video claiming that parents of persons with disabilities (PWDs) can receive a P100,000 annual cash assistance by registering through the links in the posts. This is fake. The clip was made using artificial intelligence.
On Nov. 29, one FB page uploaded an eight-second reel presented like a news report. A woman wearing a red long-sleeved shirt and a blue vest can be heard saying:
“Lahat ng may anak na PWD, makakatanggap ng one hundred thousand kada taon. Magpalista lang sa link na nasa post namin nationwide. Salamat po.”
(Everyone who has a PWD child will receive one hundred thousand pesos per year. Just register through the link in our post nationwide. Thank you.)
At least three other pages reposted the video and copied the same caption, which included three links supposedly containing the requirements and registration form.
Tell-tale signs show that the video was generated by AI.
- The watermark “Veo” can be seen at the bottom right part of the clip, indicating that it was made using the AI video generation tool of Google.
- The speaker mispronounced the word “PWD”.
- The spelling of the word “Pilipino” in the background was slightly distorted.
VERA Files ran the clip through the AI detection tool Hive Moderation. Results showed a 99.1% likelihood that the content was likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.
Google’s own AI detection tool called SynthID also detected the video’s audio as being made with Google AI, detecting the company’s own watermarks for the duration of nearly the whole clip.
All the links included in the fake posts are merely bait that redirect users to product listings on two online shopping platforms, a common tactic to boost product engagement on e-commerce sites.
The fake post appeared after the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Council on Disability Affairs said on Nov. 20 that they would push forward with the nationwide rollout of the unified identification system for PWDs, which aims to improve the registration, verification and protection of PWDs across the Philippines.
As of writing, a copy of the spurious clip uploaded by the FB page Pilipinas Newsline (created Oct. 20), has so far garnered 2,500 views, 104 shares, 13 comments, and 10 reactions. Other now-deleted videos, posted by three FB pages Nagkakaisang Pilipino, Edukasyon News Ph: News Updates Today and Pinoy Newswire, received much higher engagements.
