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James Talarico is a Christianity-hating communist who wants to perform sex-change ops on kids. Or so you might believe from the AI attack ads targeting the Democratic Senate nominee. Welcome to the first big US election of the deepfake era, where politicians can be made to say and do anything ...

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Some $80mn has already been spent on AI-generated or enhanced ads ahead of November’s midterm elections, many without disclaimers. They have been used to attack South Carolina Republican Pamela Evette as too liberal ...

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... to target Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia over a campaign finance document showing he spent more than $2,000 on make-up ...

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... and to depict LA mayoral candidate Karen Bass, Kamala Harris and California Governor Gavin Newsom as crazed aristocrats.

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But there’s a catch: the more convincing the fakes become, the less convinced voters seem to be. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 AI ‘deepfakes’ give US political attack ads a new twist ft.trib.al/V9EBi3c

ft.trib.alCheap AI ‘deepfakes’ give new twist to US political attack adsManipulated images are filling the airwaves in the run-up to November’s midterm elections