{"id":1038196,"date":"2026-09-24T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038196"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:09:23","slug":"ai-political-ads-warp-reality-ahead-of-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/ai-political-ads-warp-reality-ahead-of-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"AI political ads warp reality ahead of US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: A political ad depicts a US Senate hopeful remarking on God and gender while scrawling in a Bible with a crayon. But he never filmed the clip: it is yet another AI-generated video pushed by a rival ahead of the midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p>AI-created ads &#8212; placing politicians in fictitious situations &#8212; have proliferated ahead of the November elections, a largely unregulated form of political communication that is increasingly being adopted despite a broader backlash against the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: A political ad depicts a US Senate hopeful remarking on God and gender while scrawling in a Bible with a crayon. But he never filmed the clip: it is yet another AI-generated video pushed by a rival ahead of the midterm elections. AI-created ads &#8212; placing politicians in fictitious situations &#8212; have proliferated ahead of the November elections, a largely unregulated form of political communication that is increasingly being adopted despite a broader backlash against the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038223,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038196\/revisions\/1038223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}