WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Videos show police officers and public servants expressing opinions on political issues.
OUR VERDICT
False. The videos are AI-generated.
AAP FACTCHECK - A series of videos appears to show Australian police and government workers voicing their opinions on controversial political issues, but the clips are fabricated.
The videos were posted by a Facebook page called AussieVoice, which describes itself as providing "uncensored politics & street Q&As".
However, the clips contain telltale signs of being generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
One video appears to show a policewoman holding a placard outside the Supreme Court of Victoria while a 7NEWS crew interviews her.
"If you come to Australia and commit a serious crime, you should be on the next plane home", she says.
"Australia should come first."
However, the video is AI-generated. Meta's AI identification tool detected AI signatures in the footage, indicating it was created or edited using artificial intelligence.
The clip also contains several visual inconsistencies commonly associated with AI-generated content.
The modern glass-and-concrete building depicted in the footage does not match the exterior of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne.
The real Supreme Court of Victoria is a heritage-listed stone building.
Additionally, the 7NEWS microphone shown on the right of the video has blue branding, rather than the red-and-black branding the network typically uses.
Another video shows a female Australian Border Force (ABF) officer holding a placard outside a building marked "Border Protection & Immigration Services".
A camera operator and microphone are also visible, suggesting she is being interviewed by a news crew.
"Should anyone who enters Australia illegally be returned immediately?" the woman says.
Meta's AI identification tool detected AI signatures in the footage, while several visual and audio inconsistencies also point to AI generation.
The officer's uniform differs from those worn by genuine ABF officers, who typically wear collared, button-up shirts, as shown on the agency's official Instagram account.
The video also includes an audio glitch around the four-second mark when the ABF officer repeats the words "be returned".
A third video appears to show a woman wearing a hijab and a high-visibility security vest outside an Australian passport office.
She holds a placard that reads: "Should face coverings be removed for all official ID checks?"
Meta's AI verification tool confirms the video is also AI-generated.
The video contains several telltale signs of AI generation, including distorted text on the woman's vest and lanyard and on the building's signage.
The vest appears to read "Government Services", but the lettering is garbled, while the writing on the woman's lanyard is an indecipherable series of characters and symbols.
Signs on the building also display nonsensical words such as "SERVICES CORT" and "ENTRALIA" (timestamp four seconds).
The building exterior also does not match any of Australia's eight passport offices listed on the Australian Passport Office website.
The building bears no resemblance to the passport offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth or Sydney.
AAP FactCheck has previously debunked AI-generated videos shared by spam Facebook accounts purporting to show Australians protesting about various social and political issues.
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