When Koteka Wenda stumbled across an AI-generated video of her circulating on social media, she was shocked.In the video, she was speaking out against a documentary that has become the subject of fierce debate."The resemblance of my likeness is so sinister," she told the ABC."I felt like me and my people were violated."Ms Wenda is the daughter of Benny Wenda, the leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.The deepfake video shows Ms Wenda criticising the 90-minute film Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time, or Pesta Babi in Indonesian.The film by Dandhy Dwi Laksono and Cypri Jehan Paju Dale exposes mass deforestation and indigenous land exploitation in West Papua, allegedly facilitated by the Indonesian government through national strategic projects and big corporations.It also explores Indonesia's energy transition, how the regional sugar and biofuel industries are connected to Australia, and reveals how multinational corporations have benefited from several projects run in West Papua.West Papua activists targetedThe West Papua conflict is a long-running political and armed conflict in the western half of the island of New Guinea, a region administered by Indonesia.At its core, it is a dispute over whether West Papua should remain part of Indonesia or become an independent state.The Indonesian provinces of West Papua and Papua, often referred to collectively as West Papua, shares a border with Papua New Guinea. (ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)Ms Wenda and other West Papuan activists say the use of AI in targeted campaigns against them is the latest form of repression aimed at silencing those who speak out about West Papua.Last month, Amnesty International released a report documenting how disinformation campaigns were targeting and discrediting Indonesian government critics.Ms Wenda said that she feared AI-fabricated content could mislead her supporters, who may question "why this high-profile freedom fighter" switched sides."If they don't know me, they'd probably think it was me," she said."I'm concerned that my likeness is being used and actually is being believed to be the truth."Veronica Koman says she has been targeted on social media for speaking out about West Papua.