Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad

[adamredwoods]

>> Yet rather than simply quote Schumer’s words, the NRSC, the campaign arm responsible for electing Republican senators and chaired by Tim Scott, a South Carolina senator, chose to manufacture synthetic video of him speaking.

Democracy is lost to lies.

[hodgehog11]

Does this count as slander or libel at some point? Surely it must if they produce fake material to give off a false impression of the subject. Maybe not this case, but we must be getting there.

[nxobject]

I guess we've transitioned from speculating about no longer trusting video - or not thinking too deeply about veracity - to having to deal with it.

[tehjoker]

Wow that's really devious. My first question was beyond the outrage, was the video good? It did really look like Chuck was sneering at the people and the cut was so quick I didn't know the difference. I looked more closely, and when the video on Twitter was not fullscreen, the video controls blocked the part that said "AI Generated". I had to really look closely to notice that.

[nine_zeros]

The entire platform of republicans have been devious misinformation. Constant lying, every single day.

For the inevitable downvoters - explain your support of lies instead of downvoting.

[oulipo2]

In the same vein, is everyone's feed on Facebook and Insta full of weird pedophile AI-generated videos of seemingly ultra young girls in swimsuit moving lascively, and then the next video is some kind of AI slop of a fake "outrage scene" in some random fastfood where a fat guy is screaming at the waiter... those seem to be generated just to cause more hatred and pain to people

[ares623]

Sex, hate, and anger are the currencies of the modern web.

[estimator7292]

> those seem to be generated just to cause more hatred and pain to people

That is correct. That is the intent.

[Gigachad]

We are going to end up in a two tiered society with people who quit social media, and those who bought the Meta glasses and sit in a wall-e style chair being fed an endless slop outrage feed.

[dsamarin]

I'm glad they used a real quote from him and acknowledged the use of AI in the bottom right.

[ares623]

I think this is okay. Yesterday I wrote 10 pages of documentation and opened 15 PRs in under 4 hours. Spent the rest of the day watching YouTube. My boss said I'm a very good worker and gives me pizza every week. They promised I'll be employed until I retire. IMO, the trade-offs are worth it.

[oulipo2]

Well I get that you're being sarcastic, but no, fucking up the democracy is not okay