Campaign ads featuring AI-generated images and videos are becoming increasingly common across U.S. elections, with candidates from both parties using the technology to place opponents in situations that never occurred, raising new questions about transparency and political advertising ahead of the midterms.
The latest example comes from Texas, where a pro-Trump group, Citizens for Sanity, released an ad depicting Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico wearing a dress and singing an altered version of "My Favorite Things" about transgender children. The ad was generated using artificial intelligence.
