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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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Verified. Although the CNN URL itself was inaccessible to the browser, syndicated copies of the same March 13, 2026 CNN article by Daniel Dale reproduce both passages verbatim and attribute them to Hany Farid: the first sentence appears in KVIA/KESQ’s CNN copy, and the second appears there and in Yahoo’s republication. The submitted quote is a faithful splice of two separate Farid quotes with an allowed omission marked by [...]. ([kvia.com](https://kvia.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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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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· 1mo ago
replying to Hany Farid