2023/04/25

New Tech, Old Tricks: Republican Party Fear-Mongers About Biden Reelection with AI-Generated Political Ad

“Americans don’t need AI generated images to imagine they’re being overrun by immigrants and that their cities have devolved into anarchy, just like they don’t need deepfakes to believe lies about Nancy Pelosi.”
Motherboard’s Emanuel Maiberg, on the Republican Party turning to cutting edge technology to tell age-old lies. In a new political ad, RNC staffers used AI-generated imagery to fear-monger about “China invading Taiwan, massive waves of immigration at the United States’ border with Mexico, and the total collapse of civilization in San Francisco,” if Biden wins another term.
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