#ai-deepfake

#ai-deepfake

The Chronicle reports that BART Police officers were circulating a racist AI deepfake video, one that actually mocked one of their own Sikh colleagues, and also depicted real-life BART Police Chief Kevin Franklin. The original video shows the Sikh officer being sworn in by Chief Franklin, but in the racist deepfake version, Franklin removes the Sikh officer's turban to reveal a handgun hidden inside.

That is a distraction. All of it is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation, your life, has not gotten better, Obama said. He continued, saying the Trump Administration was too worried about helping the wealthiest, most powerful people in the country while the average citizen's bills are still going up and while the program that helps your kid with special needs just got gutted.

An over 40-minute video posted to Reid's YouTube channel has him standing behind a podium "debating" what his campaign claims is an AI version of Hashmi that was trained on her policy with a robotic approximation of her voice. The Reid campaign claims that he did not see the questions in advance. The "debate" moderator was also a computer program and opened the debate by insulting Hashmi, calling her the "Democrat candidate" instead of the Democratic candidate.

"He is using satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents, and that's what these people are doing," Johnson said, referring to an individual photo of a protest sign calling for the president's death.

A new attack ad from Senate Republicans uses Sen. Chuck Schumer's real words about the government shutdown but in an AI deepfake of the Democratic Senate Minority Leader. The 30-second video posted on X and YouTube by the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Friday raised alarms among many observers who warned it crossed a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads.