Nothing quite like multi-tasking on an early Sunday morning and hearing a familiar name mentioned in the background. Apparently, it was in the closing minute of CNN’s “Inside Politics” with Manu Raju. It was with reference to a segment on the growing proliferation of political ads with AI-generated content, ending with “According to Wesleyan…” and then a data point. Sweet.
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Ah, here’s the context: there were
more than 220 videos identified by the Wesleyan Media Project, a research group based at Wesleyan University, that used A.I.-generated fakery in ways large and small this midterm season — part of a wave of videos powered by artificial intelligence that have flooded the internet and television screens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/midterm-elections-ai-generated-ads.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.XRNX.PEv0YZXji2Wg&smid=url-share