The Senate Republican campaign arm put out an ad of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer celebrating the ongoing government shutdown on Friday morning.
The clip, however, was a deepfake.
The video, published by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, features a grinning AI version of Schumer saying each day of the government shutdown “gets better for us.”
The quote is real — Schumer said it to Punchbowl last week. But the harshly lit video of Schumer in the Senate halls was generated using AI. The NRSC added a small watermark in the bottom right corner of the ad.