Worry when the AI fakes aren’t so obvious…

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/donald-trump-ai-youtube-21323144.php

Trump pushes obviously fake videos bashing California

The Trump administration has used artificial intelligence to create a fake image of a protester crying and to splash ads across the internet for months. Now, the president is using videos that seem clearly to be created with the new tech to fan his base’s anti-California sentiment.

During a wave of posts and reposts to Truth Social on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s account twice shared an apparently AI-generated, news-style video claiming Walmart is shutting down 250 stores across California due to the state’s policy choices. One of Trump’s posts included a screenshot of a commentator calling it, “More bad news for Gavin Newson,” aka Newsom, California governor and the president’s most prominent Democratic foil.

A Walmart spokesperson told CNN that the company is not shutting down a wave of stores in California, and actually just opened a new location in the Inland Empire. Newsom’s Press Office bashed Trump for the posts, saying another posted video was AI-generated and had accused the governor of running a drug-money laundering scheme. “We cannot believe this is real life,” the governor’s post said, “And we truly cannot believe this man has the nuclear codes.”

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https://www.bespacific.com/dhs-is-using-google-and-adobe-ai-to-make-videos/

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

MIT Technology Review: “Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.”