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Title: Republicans attack Biden with a fully AI-generated ad
Post by: HCK on April 26, 2023, 04:05:05 pm
Republicans attack Biden with a fully AI-generated ad

<p>It's not a huge surprise that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had attack ads ready to go whenever <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/tag/joe-biden/">President Joe Biden[/url] officially <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/politics/joe-biden-running-2024/index.html">announced his re-election campaign[/url]. What's novel this time is that the video uses imagery generated by <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/tag/ai/">artificial intelligence[/url] to present the RNC's vision of what the world may look like if Biden wins again in 2024.&nbsp;</p><p>The RNC told <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/rnc-slams-biden-re-election-bid-ai-generated-ad">Axios[/url] it was the first time it had used a video that was made entirely with AI. The ad starts by depicting Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at an election victory party. Although there's a faint disclaimer in the top-left corner noting that the ad was &quot;built entirely with AI imagery,&quot; there's a dead giveaway that it's not a real photo of Biden and Harris — both of the smiling, AI-generated figures have <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up">far too many teeth[/url].</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="4676dc19b0c042aca2e26429b20a6ad8"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLMMxgtxQ1Y?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no"></iframe></div><p>The ad goes on to depict several domestic and international incidents that the RNC suggests might happen if the Biden-Harris ticket wins again. &quot;This morning, an emboldened China invades Taiwan,&quot; a fake news announcer says, for instance. The ad goes on to stoke fears of a financial crisis prompted by the closures of hundreds of regional banks, as well as border agents being overrun by asylum seekers and the military taking over San Francisco due to &quot;escalating crime and the fentanyl crisis.&quot;</p><p>This particular ad doesn't stray too far from the kinds of talking points one might expect Republicans to hit in an attack ad. But the video is a sobering bellwether of what we may see more of from political campaigns in the months and years to come. It's not difficult to imagine AI-generated images depicting outright falsehoods in attack ads.&nbsp;</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/republicans-attack-biden-with-a-fully-ai-generated-ad-184055192.html?src=rss

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