WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES – A political ad depicts a U.S. Senate hopeful remarking on God and gender while scrawling in a Bible with a crayon. But he never filmed the clip: it is yet another artificial intelligence-generated video pushed by a rival ahead of the midterm elections.
AI-created ads — placing politicians in fictitious situations — have proliferated ahead of the November elections, a largely unregulated form of political communication that is increasingly being adopted despite a broader backlash against the technology.
Earlier this month, Ken Paxton, a Republican Senate nominee in Texas, posted an AI-generated ad on X depicting his Democratic
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