{"id":70716,"date":"2026-09-08T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70716"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:50:35","slug":"ken-paxtons-bs-ai-campaign-ad-features-a-fake-james-talarico-misquoting-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70716","title":{"rendered":"Ken Paxton’s BS AI Campaign Ad Features a Fake James Talarico Misquoting Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, a wealth of information has become instantly available and exploitable to advance research and expand knowledge. But at the same time much of what people relate to as reality is vulnerable to distortion and outright, deliberate deception.<\/p>\n

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If this technology is to be adopted in a useful, non-harmful way, there needs to be thoughtful consideration given to imposing regulatory guardrails to prevent misuse and abuse. Without that we will see nefarious scam artists taking advantage of it to enrich themselves and victimize others. And political partisans will purposely contrive their use of AI to align with their biases.<\/p>\n

FOR INSTANCE: Trump\u2019s Truth Social AI ChatBot Relies Almost Entirely on Fox News and Other Trump-Fluffing Media<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’ve been wondering when we would see the worst of what AI is capable of, that time has come. The Republican Senate candidate in Texas, Ken Paxton, has released a campaign ad that features an AI representation of his Democratic opponent, James Talarico. The ad is entirely generated with AI and shows Talarico supposedly speaking in his own voice, and saying things that would disturb many Texan voters. Talarico is shown reading from a King James Talarico bible and “saying”<\/em> that…<\/p>\n

“In the beginning God was non-binary, and he wasn’t a Christian. And God said let there be six genders, and there were. Then God so loved the world, he gave us his only son, who is a radical feminist and never asked people to worship him. Look, I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity. America is not a Christian nation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ken Paxton releases AI generated ad of James Talarico. pic.twitter.com\/vmkzMR2hNr<\/a><\/p>\n

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