THE video looks hyper-real, depicting a US Senate candidate laughing at cards that read "Death to America" and "Celebrate 9/11".
But it is part of a multimillion-dollar blitz of artificial intelligence-generated political ads ahead of the midterm elections.
Reality-bending deepfake ads — dubbed AI "slopaganda" by researchers and used by both sides of the political aisle to target rivals — are proliferating across the airwaves and social media ahead of the Nov 3 vote.
"His family values are wrong for Michigan," said one ad that portrays Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed playing a board game with two people wearing traditional kaffiyehs, the checkered Arab scarves.
