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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.AI Verified source (2026)
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A CNN-syndicated republication contains both quoted passages attributed to Hany Farid. The first sentence appears verbatim: “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,” and later the same article quotes Farid saying: “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 — in fact, I didn’t notice when I first looked at the video.” The user’s [...] is a faithful omission of the intervening text. UC Berkeley’s School of Information also reproduces the first sentence and attributes it to Farid. ([ktvz.com](https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2026/03/13/republicans-release-ai-deepfake-of-james-talarico-as-phony-videos-proliferate-in-midterm-races/))
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YouCongress
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· 18d 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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· 1mo ago
replying to Hany Farid