AI-Generated Fake News and Synthetic Influencers Are Scaling Faster Than Detection

From AI court system ads in Times Square to synthetic influencers running affiliate schemes and AI-generated election misinformation in Japan, the deception surface is widening.

Three distinct examples of AI-generated deception surfaced today, painting a picture of a problem that's scaling faster than the tools to address it. In New York, ads appeared promoting an "AI court system" — actually a marketing campaign for a film called 'Mercy,' as @PopCrave reported. The campaign went viral precisely because people couldn't tell it was fiction.

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