AI Is Changing What Political Campaigns Say, and Who Gets to Hear It

AI is changing what political campaigns say, and who gets to hear it

MINNEAPOLIS — For years, political campaigns have tried to learn everything they can about voters: What they drive. Where they shop. Whether they own a home, a boat or have a particular interest in equestrian sports.

Political ads made with AI break into the midterms campaign

The ad opens with James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas, seated at a desk, apparently rewriting the Book of Genesis from the Old Testament. “In the beginning,” Talarico says, hunched over as he writes, “God was nonbinary. And was not Christian. And God said: ‘Let there be six genders’; and there were.”Seguir leyendo

Flashy AI campaign ads use religion to stir emotions and attack candidates

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Fiona André | Religion News Service (RNS) — In a recent campaign ad for Ken Paxton, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, his Democratic opponent James Talarico appears to sit at a desk while he scribbles on a Bible page. “I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity,” says the ad’s Talarico before adding that God was a “radical feminist” who “never asked people to worshi…