Nothing Is Stopping the Flood of A.I. Political Ads

Nothing Is Stopping the Flood of A.I. Political Ads They're not real, but can voters tell the difference? In August, the reëlection campaign of the North Carolina state senator Michael Lee, a Republican, released an ad attacking his Democratic opponent, a yoga-studio owner named Jessica Bichler. The ad, titled "Bonkers Bichler," seems to show Bichler, a middle-aged woman with graying straight hair, doing yoga in a well-equipped, gently lit studio. The figure onscreen is not Bichler, though; it's a hyperrealistic, animated A.I. rendering of her. The next frame shows her body twisting into an impossible knot, even as she maintains a vacant-eyed grin.