Governor Kim Reynolds is a conservative champion,
she signed the Heartbeat Bill and stands up for Iowans every day.
So, why is Donald Trump attacking her?
>> Speaker 2: I opened up the governor position for Kim Reynolds and
when she fell behind, I endorsed her, did big rallies, and she won.
Now she wants to remain neutral.
I don't invite her to events.
>> Speaker 1: Trump should fight Democrats, not Republicans.
What happened to Donald Trump?
Never Back Down is responsible for the content of this advertising.
>> Speaker 3: Now Never Back Down is a PAC supporting Ron DeSantis,
who of course, is running against Donald Trump in the GOP primary.
And that particular ad has led to some meltdowns,
because it turns out that the voice you heard wasn't Trump himself,
it was an AI generated version of Trump.
But I will say that he actually made that statement about Kim Reynolds,
it's just that he didn't say it in an audio recording.
With that said though, Trump world did not like the ad apparently.
And despite the fact that it was, again,
an actual truth social post in which he went after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds,
they're really upset that they fabricated his voice for that political ad.
And so Trump campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita says this.
The blatant use of AI to fabricate President Trump's voice is a desperate
attempt by [LAUGH] Always Back Down and PAC official Jeff Roe to deceive
the American public because they know DeSanctimonious campaign is on life
support, which by the way, it is on life support.
>> Speaker 3: No, that's fine.
>> They are worry about that.
>> Speaker 4: No, but that's not a message from Trump.
>> Speaker 3: No, it's not.
>> Speaker 4: Other people can't just put that in a message.
>> Speaker 3: How dare you?
He's appropriating Trump's, DeSantis himself.
>> Speaker 4: You used his voice.
>> Speaker 3: How dare you?
>> Speaker 4: That dude is AI.
>> Speaker 3: [LAUGH] Okay, so let me continue with the graphic, though.
After losing big donors and slashing their staff, they have now outsourced
their work to AI just like they would like to outsource American jobs to China.
Okay, so -.
>> Speaker 4: Was that AI?
That sounded so much like him.
>> Speaker 3: [LAUGH] This isn't the first time that the DeSantis campaign has leaned
into AI for their political campaigning and their political ads,
especially when it comes to attacking Donald Trump.
So, it wasn't just Trump's team that was upset about this, by the way.
Kari Lake wanted to come in and protect daddy, and so
she puts out this email, or this message, I should say.
Kari Lake calls on all politicians and PACs to pledge against using artificial
intelligence in campaign ads, which by the way, I'm not against.
I actually think that, that would be a good rule.
And I should note that political ads are not regulated by the same rules
that other ads are regulated by, so false advertising isn't really allowed, right?
So if there are advertisements that are incredibly misleading or
lie about the product that they're trying to sell to you,
there are regulations in place to prevent that from happening, and basically,
serve consequences when it does happen.
In the political realm, lies in political advertising totally allowed.
>> Speaker 4: I've noticed that.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so the infiltration of AI technology in political ads could prove
to be disastrous which is why I get in this context,
you might not think it's a big deal, but I do think it's a big deal.
And I do think there should be some regulations in place to prevent AI
from fabricating things about various politicians or candidates.
>> Speaker 4: What about a compromise?
You can do the AI voices, but
it has to be as godawful as the AI voice in that ad, totally unconvincing.
>> Speaker 3: That was super obvious to us, but
is it gonna be obvious to everyone?
>> Speaker 4: I don't know.
I will say that as soon as I heard that,
I thought all of the predictions are coming true, AI is taking people's jobs.
And I know that because I could have done a much better job,
they could have paid me day rate, 300 bucks and I could have done that voice and
it would have been way more convincing.
Anyway, I hate it.
I know that they very specifically did it off of a quote that existed,
because then they could be, well, he did actually say it.
It doesn't matter.
He didn't say it out loud, it's different, you're adding inflection,
intonation that changes it, you can't just do that.
And this isn't even the first time that Ron DeSantis has used AI in his ads.
>> Speaker 3: We have another example, and in fact, the example that we're about to
show you from last month really upset Tim Poole for some reason.
Well, I haven't seen it, so to be fair, I haven't watched it,
maybe it's particularly egregious.
Let's take a look.
>> Speaker 4: Let's see.
>> Speaker 5: You're fired.
You're fired. You're fired.
You're all fired.
All four are fired.
>> Speaker 2: You're fired.
Today I walk in, I hear I'm gonna fire him, I'm not firing him,
I think he's a wonderful guy.
>> Speaker 3: Should you have fired Fauci?
>> Speaker 2: So a lot of people asked me that question, and I did it right,
because if you do fire him, you're gonna have a firestorm on the left again.
>> Speaker 2: Why would you feel unable to fire Fauci?
First of first, you're not allowed to -.
>> Speaker 2: Every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb, but
there's a bigger bomb if you fire him.
>> Speaker 2: Frankly, you can't win that one, if I would have done it,
I would have taken heat.
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>> Speaker 4: The crocodile dan.
God, man, do they wish that they had a cooler candidate than they do.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it was labeled where the real Trump was, right?
>> Speaker 4: Well, I mean, but it was like the photos of him literally kissing
Fauci on the head, you can't do that, but that's crazy.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
I mean, I guess it's because I know how much he despised Fauci, and
I know that that would have never happened.
I would venture to say most Republican voters know that, but who knows?
I mean, look, the point here is people are being misled
potentially through the use of this technology, and
it's not right, especially in the context of elections.
>> Speaker 4: And also, when we discuss the possibility that there could be some
sort of regulations, understand that even if we,
let's say that we agree with Kerry Lake or whatever, as we do so often.
>> Speaker 3: On this very specific issue.
>> Speaker 4: Yeah, and most policies.
So if we were to get what we want, we and Kari Lake, I'm kidding.
By the way, don't say that, I'm totally joking -.
There's a bunch of left-wingers from Twitter that are sitting here watching
every single word I say to take out of context and claim that I was opposing -.
>> Speaker 4: I'm just joking about Kari Lake.
>> Speaker 3: Rabid right-winger.
>> Speaker 4: I apologize. >> Speaker 3: So be clear,
we do not support Kari Lake.
>> Speaker 4: I do not like Kari Lake.
>> Speaker 3: Simmer down.
>> Speaker 4: Check the videos -.
>> It gonna be okay. >> Speaker 4: I'm not a fan of hers.
>> Speaker 4: Yeah.
>> But anyway, that's just going to be the official campaigns.
How many thousands of trolls, mostly on the right wing, but
perhaps not entirely on the right wing,
are desperately looking to use this to inject fake news into the election?
Trump, and DeSantis, and Biden make a good portion of the stuff you'll see on
social media, but you're gonna see a million memes and fake bits of audio and
video that are going to flood social media.
They're gonna convince tons of people that you know that don't follow politics as
much as you do and will be picked up by right wing media.
You're gonna have shows like Steve Bannon and
all of that pretending that they can't tell that this stuff is fake.
And so that's my concern, is that even if we succeed in getting some regulations,
it's only going to stem the most official stuff.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Look, I don't know how to get around all of the issues we have
with misinformation, disinformation, deep fakes AI.
It's just increasingly difficult to ensure that people are informed about what's
happening in the country, informed about the candidates that they're about to
vote on and either vote against or vote in favor of.
It really is a problem.
So in this very minor area, not minor, but on this very specific issue,
there is some agreement between ourselves and people like Kari Lake.
I can't believe I'm saying that out loud, but it's true.
Intentionally misleading people just to get an advantage in
the election is pretty gross.
And again, now it's on overdrive considering the technological
advancement that makes it possible to lie to people.
But one final thing that I wanna say is that apparently the team likes to
fabricate things quite a bit.
So here's a tweet from the founder of the Act for America, PAC.
I mean, this is so obviously fake.
It's a tweet showing Donald Trump side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr.
>> Speaker 4: Well,
that looks pretty real.
>> Speaker 3: That looks very real.
>> Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Well, wait, hold on.
Let's fact check the text.
Two of our nation's greatest advocates for civil rights, case could be made.
[LAUGH] I hate the Internet, I hate the Internet.
Whoever that person is, I've seen her tweets because literally right now,
she's tweeting.
She's always tweeting, she does not take time off,
has tons of followers for just -.
>> Who is that person?
>> Speaker 4: Utter nonsense.
Actually, after that tweet, I looked into her.
She had written a book that was super Islamophobic and
got some notoriety from that and now just tweets a lot.
But that describes a lot of people who are for some reason notable in politics,
they're just always tweeting.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.
And finally, I didn't hear a lot of brouhaha from the right
wing when it came to AI being implemented to smear the left.
So it's okay when it smears the left,
it's just that they don't like it when it smears Daddy Trump.
So here's the example I'm talking about.
Just in, we can now call the 2024 presidential race for Joe Biden.
>> Speaker 2: My fellow American.
>> Speaker 3: This morning, an emboldened China invades Taiwan.
>> Speaker 2: Financial markets are in free fall as 500 regional banks have
shuttered their doors.
>> Speaker 4: Border agents were overrun by a surge of 80,000 illegals yesterday
evening.
>> Speaker 3: Officials closed the city of San Francisco this morning,
citing the escalating crime and fentanyl crisis.
Who's in charge here?
>> Speaker 3: It feels like the train is coming off the tracks.
So John, that was the ad you were referring to earlier.
>> Speaker 4: Yeah, and I love it because it's like, well,
we would love to just run on all the stuff Biden has done wrong, but I guess,
we'll just make up stuff and then run against that, that seems easier.
We talked about this Cat Turd tweet earlier -.
>> Speaker 3: My God.
>> Speaker 4: Cat Turd is constantly retweeting this AOC parody account that
says things that leftist who is an idiot would say.
And I love that because when we want to point out that Marjorie Green is an idiot,
we talk about the things that Marjorie Green says.
When they wanna show that AOC is an idiot, they put things that -.
>> They just made up.
That is pretty amazing.
>> Speaker 4: It's kind of demonstrating that you don't have the raw material you
wish you did.
>> Speaker 3: Totally, 100%.
>> Speaker 4: Anyway.
Yeah, you can't run ads like that, that's insane.
There's got to be bounds of reason.
I understand that there's some gray area, like, well, theoretically,
a person could make art of a thing, is that really that different?
Yes, it's different, you can't do this.
>> Speaker 3: If I ran against Lauren Boebert, all I would do with zero edits is
just use the video of her asking about public urination over and
over again as the political ad.
>> Speaker 4: And it's real, that's the benefit.
>> Speaker 3: Paid for by Casperia Pack.
[LAUGH] Maybe I should run in Colorado, maybe I should -.
>> Move there, it's a lovely state.