Young women appearing to speak passionately against Australian immigration on a popular social media page have been revealed to be AI-generated avatars.

Facebook page Inside Australia has published several videos of typically young female Australians railing against immigration at protests.

The videos, some of which have more than a million views, show tell-tale signs of being generated using artificial intelligence, including unnatural mouth movements and garbled text.

Despite the Facebook page’s name, its transparency information reveals it’s operated from Sri Lanka.

The page regularly posts videos about immigration and crime in Australia, frequently calling for the deportation of immigrants and sharing content that appears designed to inflame anti-Muslim sentiment.

Many comments suggest viewers believe the featured protesters are real people. However, there are multiple signs that the videos are synthetic.

The speeches and several placards, calling for authorities to “stop the boats” and shut down migrant hotels, reference past issues that are no longer central to Australia’s immigration debate.

The videos appear to speak of non-Australian issues. Photo: Facebook

Boat arrivals to Australia dropped sharply after the introduction of Operation Sovereign Borders in 2013, which involved intercepting and turning back vessels.

The use of hotels to detain asylum seekers was a contentious issue in recent years, but numbers have declined following sustained criticism and investigations by the Human Rights Commission, according to reporting from the ABC.

By contrast, small boat crossings and the use of hotels to house asylum seekers remain prominent political issues in the UK.

The mismatch suggests the AI generator may have blurred distinct national debates, conflating the UK’s key talking points with those of another country.

Many of the videos also contain multiple visual errors typical of AI-generated content.

In one video,  a placard in the background reads “Stop The Boates” and another sign at the end displays garbled text: “CUT THE IIR BENEFITS – THEY WILL FILE LAVE MEMSELVES.”

The videos include signs of AI generation, including garbled text. Photo: Facebook/AAP

People in the background often appear stiff and expressionless, while the speakers’ lip movements often fail to sync with their words.

The protest signs also lack realistic shadows and depth, appearing as flat black text on stark white backgrounds – another common indicator of synthetic media.

In another post, the right side of the young woman’s face appears to blur and randomly morph into the background.

Several signs in the background appear to have illegible AI-generated nonsense text on them.

One video shows people carrying Australian flags that dissolve and blur and garbled text signs that don’t appear to be in English.

One sign in the centre of the video distorts and changes shape to fit additional text as the video progresses.

Another post shows background people with blurred, distorted faces, and once again ends showing a sign with obvious misspellings like “Taxpadyers’ Money for Ausies first”.

A building has a vertical black-and-white sign reading “Centrelink” in the background, but this is not the government social service agency’s branding, as seen on other Centrelink offices.

-AAP