00:09New York City Mayor Zoran Mondani has released a blooper reel after critics
00:15accused him of using AI in a recent video where he appeared to speak
00:20multiple languages and his response he decided to show everyone the takes
00:36that went wrong here's what happened over the weekend
00:46Mondani posted videos of himself speaking Mandarin Bengali and Spanish
00:54the videos were part of a campaign to promote a program giving away 2,000 free
01:00Broadway tickets to high school students in New York City but instead of only
01:05focusing on the Broadway giveaway some viewers began focusing on Mondani's
01:10language skills his pronunciation and accents received praise online but that
01:16praise quickly turned into suspicion
01:22critics began accusing Mondani of using artificial intelligence to generate or
01:27manipulate the foreign language portions of the videos
01:35Mondani then responded on Monday August 17th instead of simply denying the
01:41allegations the mayor released a blooper reel
01:49the footage showed him repeatedly struggling with his lines and making
01:54mistakes while attempting to speak the different languages and the caption could
02:04AI do this tambien the post was clearly aimed at mocking the suggestion that the
02:13original videos had been entirely generated using AI the blooper reel gives
02:21viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Mondani repeatedly attempting the foreign
02:25language lines before getting them right the controversy comes as AI generated
02:38political content is becoming an increasingly sensitive issue politicians
02:43around the world are facing growing scrutiny over whether videos voices and
02:49images have been digitally manipulated but in Mondani's case his response was not
02:55another technical explanation it was a collection of failed takes the original
03:01videos showed Mondani speaking Mandarin Bengali and Spanish while promoting free
03:06Broadway tickets for New York City high school students the response from
03:10critics was to question whether those performances were genuine Mondani's
03:15answer was essentially to say watch me get it wrong so did the blooper reel settle the AI
03:22debate for his supporters the footage is evidence that the videos involved real
03:27recording sessions and repeated attempts I have a 70 in the state regents exam for his critics
03:38questions about editing or post-production may still remain but one thing is clear what began
03:44as praise for Mondani's multi-lingual pronunciation quickly turned into an AI
03:50controversy
03:55and the New York City mayor chose to fight that controversy with a blooper reel
04:03no it's almost there are we with our cubes and our X's and our Y's okay let's do it
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04:14theater development fund
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04:22Broadway show
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04:25Ok then the rest is okay
04:27Okay
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