Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) leader Dragan Djilas said he will sue the pro-regime Pink TV and its owner Zeljko Mitrovic over a video clip made using artificial intelligence in which he allegedly admits to wrongdoings and to insulting his opposition colleagues.

Djilas told a media conference outside the Pink TV building that it seems that all the many lies this media outlet released about him were not enough so that it had to clone his voice to show the people in Serbia that he is saying some things he never actually said.

They had to use artificial intelligence to make a forged video of this kind, said Djilas, stressing that the video was show in Pink TV news broadcasts and that “many people in Serbia believed that I was actually saying that.”

Pink TV recently made similar video clips of SSP deputy leader Marinika Tepic and People’s Party (NS) leader Vuk Jeremic.

Djilas said he has hired a law office that will take legal action against Zeljko Mitrovic and “his machinery of lies.”

“I hope that, faced with new methods of abuse, our courts will take a stand that will protect the citizens from those with excess power and with a lack of personal shame and morality,” said Djilas.

Djilas warned of the huge possibilities for manipulation using AI, and stressed that the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) should have already reacted and banned the said video clips.