00:00Attack ads are nothing new, and we see them every election cycle.
00:06But what's different is that these AI deepfakes are convincing,
00:11likely convincing a swath of people that they are, in fact, authentic.
00:17My question to you is, how exactly did we get here?
00:19People have been warning about deepfakes on the internet
00:23since, like, the social media was, since social media was invented, right?
00:28Moving forward, we need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet.
00:33AI has presented a unique challenge where really, at least somewhat convincing,
00:42deepfakes are really easy to produce.
00:45In one of the most, you know, widely shared AI deepfakes of Cook
00:53that Van Orden posted to his ex-account, she's saying,
00:57Do you really think it matters what you peasants think?
01:00I am the anointed one.
01:03I am the anointed one.
01:05Which is crazy.
01:09It's like a gaffe that she never actually uttered, right?
01:13What we're seeing this election cycle is a significant amount of, like, disinformation
01:20or, you know, false claims about political candidates.
01:26It has basically democratized the ability to quickly spread believable and convincing disinformation.
