Politicians have long made it hard to trust their words. Now, AI -generated campaign ads flooding the airwaves and social media are making it harder to trust your own eyes and ears. Why it matters: Americans' trust in politicians and institutions has been tanking in recent years — and AI campaign ads could deepen that erosion, political tech experts say. What they're saying: "I think that it is true that Americans are losing faith in elite institutions to tell them what is true and what is not, and AI exacerbates that trend," Nate Persily, co-director of the Stanford Law AI Initiative, tells Axios. - "The more artificial media that we consume, the less likely that people will be able to discern what is true from what is false, and…
Republicans are spending more money and running more ads on immigration than Democrats are ahead of the November midterm elections, according to an NPR analysis of advertisement data.
A.I.-generated images are the public face of this election overhaul. Behind the scenes, campaigns are using the technology to analyze voter data, craft campaign materials and write custom messages.
Expect to see much more of President Trump , New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in midterm ads this year than House Speaker Mike Johnson or Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, strategists in both parties tell Axios. Why it matters: Billions of dollars will collectively be spent to elect Johnson or Jeffries as House speaker, but you probably won't even be able to tell by just watching the ads meant to achieve that goal. - Neither congressional leader inspires the kind of partisan animosity that makes a politician the ideal attack ad bogeyman, according to party strategists working on House races. - Instead, Trump likely will feature heavily in Democrats' attack ads, while Mamdani, AOC, former Speaker Nancy…
BANNON: Cornyn spent $80M tearing down @KenPaxtonTX, and his one positive ad pretends he was shoulder to shoulder with Trump on the wall. In reality, Cornyn hated the wall and helped lead the fight against it. Now his team says he’s “99.9% with Trump.” People aren’t stupid.
