Summary
On April 4, a Russian military recruitment advertisement on the social media platform VK used an AI-generated image of the late opposition politician Alexey Navalny. The post was published in a group called ‘Contract for the SVO. Kaliningrad’ by an organization named ‘Rodina Geroev’ (‘Homeland of Heroes’), which offered military contracts to individuals up to age 64 with various backgrounds. When contacted by journalists, a company representative admitted the image was generated and stated it was an error by a marketer, though the post was deleted before the article was published.