I ran for 3 hours after watching the AI video...Fake tourist destinations
Jul 11, 2025
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According to Hong Kong media South China Morning Post, an elderly couple in Malaysia drove three hours from Kuala Lumpur to Perak Province to visit tourist attractions.
As the elderly couple checked in to the hotel, "What is the nearby cable car attraction?"I asked the staff.
Then the employee replied that there was no such place.
The couple explained to the staff that they saw the host experience it himself and interview tourists on the TV program.
The video the couple watched was about a virtual broadcast channel called 'TV Rakyat' introducing a mountain cable car tourist attraction called 'Kuak Skyride'.
The host in the video interviewed tourists against the backdrop of lush forests and mountains and even enjoyed a meal at a nice restaurant.
However, all these scenes were fake videos created by AI. The hotel staff explained that "the characters and places in the video are all fictional" and the elderly couple is very angry and will sue the reporter in the video."," he was quoted as saying. Since then, the video has been deleted from the platform as the controversy grew.
There are likely to be more victims related to the video.
According to local media, another person also claimed "My parents watched the same video and rented a car for 9,000 ringgit (about 2.9 million won)."
The incident has caused a feverish repercussion in the Malaysian online community, and concerns about the real-world damage caused by AI technology have been amplified.
Netizens are saying, `Even young people can be deceived by watching the video", "Now we really need AI-related laws.", and urged the government to actively regulate it.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian government established the National Artificial Intelligence Secretariat in December last year and began preparing related policies and regulations, but so far, there is no specific law on AI or machine learning. In the wake of this incident, Malaysian society has pointed out that it is urgent to verify the authenticity of AI information and to come up with government-level countermeasures.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
