Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.
Can You Believe What You See?
A video goes viral. In it, a world leader announces a shocking policy decision. Millions watch, react, and share within hours. The only problem: the video is entirely fabricated. The voice, the facial expressions, and the setting (18) __________. By the time fact-checkers flag it as false, the damage is already done. Incidents like this are no longer hypothetical. In 2025, hyper-realistic voice cloning and AI-generated video are actively fueling fraud (19) __________.
What makes this threat particularly serious is how convincing the technology has become. When looking at a video or an image, people are likely to believe (20) __________. Written misinformation invites suspicion; fabricated video bypasses it. A striking example occurred in early 2024, when a journalist from France 24 was targeted with a deepfake (21)__________, distorting his reporting and undermining his credibility. If professional journalists can be impersonated so convincingly, ordinary audiences have very little defence.
Experts agree that the solution cannot rely on technology alone. (22) __________. In an era when seeing is no longer believing, the ability to question what we consume may be the most essential skill of all.
[Adapted from https://unric.org/en/]
Question 18: A. is generating by artificial intelligence to deceive viewers
B. were all generated by artificial intelligence C. produced by artificial intelligence for fraudulent purposes D. was generated by artificial intelligence
