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AI detects that the Meme coin video released by the President of the Central African Republic may be a deepfake, and the authenticity of the project has been questioned by many parties

On February 10, President of the Central African Republic Tuadella announced the issuance of the official meme coin CAR on the X platform this morning, calling it an "experiment" to promote national development. But the announcement video was flagged as suspicious by two AI deepfake detection tools. According to GMGN market data, CAR's market value has now exceeded 700 million dollars. The authenticity of the project has been questioned by many parties. Two detection models from Deepware, an AI deepfake detection platform, showed that the video statement issued by the president was highly suspicious, and one model pointed out that the video had an 82% chance of being a deepfake. Unrevealed XYZ founder Yokai Ryujin pointed out that the project domain name was registered through Namecheap only three days ago, and the registration method did not comply with the government's operating standards. Domain name service provider Namecheap has suspended related services, but the project website is still running. In addition, industry insiders questioned the release time of midnight in the local area, and the practice of issuing announcements in English rather than the official language French is unreasonable. At present, the official X account of the project @Carmeme_news has been banned by the platform.