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Social Media Politics10 min reading time

Paid Actors, AI Writing

Hacker NewsPublished 8 days ago

Researchers at Riddance AI uncovered a network of YouTube channels using AI-generated scripts paired with real actors to spread politically charged content, mainly targeting Democratic politicians with negative claims. These videos amassed 45 million views and over 90,000 comments, evading YouTube's AI content detection.

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A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.
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