Rodina Demands Yabloko Be Removed From the Elections Over a ChatGPT Image, a Photo of Medvedev, and a Frame From the Film War and Peace

Rodina Demands Yabloko Be Removed From the Elections Over a ChatGPT Image, a Photo of Medvedev, and a Frame From the Soviet Film War and Peace

The Rodina party has demanded that the Supreme Court remove Yabloko from the elections over an image generated by ChatGPT, a photograph of Dmitry Medvedev, as well as a frame from the Soviet film War and Peace and an altered image of the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Two sources in the judicial and electoral system familiar with the contents of the lawsuit told Verstka this.

According to them, Rodina in its claims points to a whole series of copyright violations that, in its view, were committed by Yabloko. One of the interlocutors said that the plaintiff’s lawyers “dug all the way down to ChatGPT.”

“The lawsuit mentions an image generated on the basis of a real photo, which Yabloko used on its website. And it says that the neural network’s copyright was violated,” he says.

Using a similar scheme, through accusations of copyright infringement, the authors of the lawsuit cited several more materials from Yabloko’s website. These included photographs of Russian CEC head Ella Pamfilova, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov, and United Russia chairman Dmitry Medvedev. The authors of the images, the plaintiff states, did not give Yabloko permission to use their images in campaigning, as required by law.

Among these materials were also a frame from the 1967 film War and Peace and a photo of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

According to Verstka’s sources familiar with the lawsuit, the logic of the complaint is this: Yabloko’s official website is a campaign resource, and therefore materials published there must be regarded as campaigning for the party. If such violations were committed in it, that is lawful grounds for removing Yabloko from the elections.

A Russian electoral lawyer, who asked that his name not be mentioned, explained to Verstka that the key question for the court will be whether to recognize the materials named in the lawsuit as campaigning or not. And the answer to that question is “a zone of pure judicial arbitrariness, which is practically not limited by the framework of the law.”

🟦According to TASS, in its lawsuit to remove Yabloko from the elections Rodina also insists that the party repeatedly committed other violations of election law. In particular, that some materials from Yabloko’s website indicate “systemic support for the LGBT movement, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation.”

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