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AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving

  • Written by Lisa Fazio, Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceivingPoliticians are posting AI-generated videos of themselves and their opponents.Screenshots by The Conversation

Zohran Mamdani as a creepy trick-or-treater, Gavin Newsom body-slamming Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. This is not the setup to an elaborate joke. Instead, these are all examples of recent AI-generated political videos. New...

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