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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
Policy proposals and claims
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Verified. The CNN source URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim from the March 13, 2026 CNN article on the NRSC's AI deepfake of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico: Hany Farid said "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." Attribution to Hany Farid (UC Berkeley professor, digital forensics/deepfake detection expert) is correct and year 2026 is current. The "for" vote on "Ban AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent" aligns with Farid's critical assessment of this nonconsensual deepfake impersonation and its inadequate disclosure.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 11d ago
replying to Hany Farid