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>> 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.

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