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US senate candidate touches on deepfake spreading online
Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General Kevin Kijewski posted this AI-generated video of Abdul El-Sayed lighting a chair on fire. El-Sayed is running for the U.S. Senate.
(FOX 2) - A candidate running for U.S. Senate is ready to set the record straight after an AI deep fake video was posted on social media.
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Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General Kevin Kijewski posted this AI-generated video of Abdul El-Sayed lighting a chair on fire. El-Sayed is running for the U.S. Senate.
The video, titled on Kijewski’s account as "Lighting Fires and Walking Away," features El-Sayed, who has stated that the video is not of him.
"I don’t really know what that person’s intentions were. I hope they were kidding around, but unfortunately, as you mentioned, a lot of the time you’ve got folks who can’t necessarily tell what is real from what is not," said El-Sayed.
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The video was posted in response to El-Sayed condemning the violence against Charlie Kirk and denouncing what he calls Kirk’s speech as often being "xenophobic, hateful, and inflammatory."
El-Sayed advises caution with what you consume on social media.
"Just make sure that when you’re consuming things on the Internet, you give it a test before you actually believe what you’re seeing," said El-Sayed.