Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, posted an “AI”-generated video imagining New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul hanging out, bizarrely gardening together, riding bikes, and vaguely colluding about making the state unaffordable.

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    11 days ago

    The law states: “A person, firm, association, corporation, campaign, committee, or organization that distributes or publishes any political communication that was produced by or includes materially deceptive media and has actual knowledge that it is materially deceptive shall be required to disclose this use.” The law requires a disclosure displayed directly on the media in an easily readable font saying, “This (image, video, or audio) has been manipulated.”

    I’m surprised purposefully misleading content is not just plain illegal. Not labeling manipulated content is one thing, misleading the public with real looking media is another.