Military on the streets of San Francisco, an apparent bomb attack in Taiwan. Stark images that feature in a GOP campaign video released Tuesday.
But none of it is real. The ad was “built entirely with AI imagery.”
The video includes a fake image of a crestfallen President Joe Biden slouched over the Resolute Desk – and comes amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology tools that create fake images, video, and audio.
Misinformation experts had warned that fake content created through AI could be used in the 2024 election campaign.
“This ad is almost certainly the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the use — and misuse — of generative AI in the 2024 election and beyond,” said Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert and professor at UC Berkley.
The GOP ad includes a watermark on the top left corner with the message “built entirely with AI imagery.”
"While it can be argued that this ad was not explicitly deceptive, it is not hard to see how generative AI can be used to attack political opponents,” Farid told CNN.
Responding to the ad, the DNC’s Sam Cornale tweeted, “When your operative class has been decimated, and you're following MAGA Republicans off a cliff, I suppose you have no choice but to ask AI to help.”