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Comment by Hany Farid
UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science; leading expert on digital forensics and deepfake detection
The face and voice are very good. There is a slight misalignment between audio and video, but otherwise this is hyper-realistic and I don't think that most people would immediately know it is fake. [...] I don't think that faint, small font in the bottom righthand corner comes close to appropriate disclosure because the average person doom scrolling on X/YouTube is simply not going to notice.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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Quote (2026) confirmed accurate. The cnn.com source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but web search confirms the CNN article 'Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races' (March 13, 2026) contains BOTH portions of the quote verbatim: 'There is a slight misalignment between audio and video, but otherwise this is hyper-realistic and I don't think that most people would immediately know it is fake,' and 'I don't think that faint, small font in the bottom righthand corner comes close to appropriate disclosure because the average person doom scrolling on X/YouTube is simply not going to notice.' Author attribution (Hany Farid, UC Berkeley professor and deepfake/digital forensics expert) is correct. His criticism that the existing disclosure is inadequate aligns with the 'for' vote on 'Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising.' Author, content, year, source contents, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 10d ago
replying to Hany Farid