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Vietnamese Activists Cannot Afford an Anti-AI Stance

By Aerolyne Reed5 min read
Graphic: S.B./The Vietnamese Magazine.

When a young man known as N.T.Đ. posted a satirical AI-generated image of a driver fainting at a petrol station to mock fluctuating fuel prices, the Hà Nội Police Cybersecurity Division reacted with swift, uncompromising urgency. Authorities immediately penalized him for spreading what they deemed false information. 

On a much more sinister scale, state prosecutors sentenced dissidents Lê Trung Khoa and Nguyễn Văn Đài in absentia to 17 years in prison, accusing them of using AI deepfakes and voice synthesis to caricature ruling party leaders.

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Aerolyne Reed

Aerolyne Reed is a writer and she does not consider herself as anyone special. She thinks she is just another sound, lost in a multitude of voices, just another soul adrift in the aetherial sea.

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