{"id":6430,"date":"2025-11-03T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/fox-news-fake-ai-video\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:37:34","slug":"fox-news-fake-ai-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/fox-news-fake-ai-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, we reported<\/a> on a wave <\/strong>of AI-generated slop videos peddling misinformation about people who receive Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program, otherwise known as SNAP or food stamps.<\/p>\n

In one of the clips<\/a> circulating online, a woman in a store rages at an employee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cut my food stamps,\u201d she says. \u201cI ain\u2019t paying for none of this s**t. I got babies at home that gotta eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video caught the attention of Fox News<\/em>, which apparently missed the clues<\/a> that the video wasn\u2019t real. Over the weekend, the network ran a story treating the footage if it were genuine, using it to stir up anger against SNAP, which primarily benefits<\/a> children, the elderly, and people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Fox<\/em>\u2018s story has since been rewritten almost entirely, along with adding an extraordinary editor\u2019s note at the bottom acknowledging that that it \u201cpreviously reported on some videos that appear to have been generated by AI without noting that.\u201d Amazingly, it still tries to argue that poor and working class welfare recipients are spoiled by SNAP, which provides a cold food<\/a> stipend averaging just $177 per recipient<\/a> per month.<\/p>\n

As part of the rewrite, the original headline<\/a> reading \u201cSNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown\u201d has been updated to \u201cAI videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining about cuts go viral.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the taxpayer\u2019s responsibility to take care of my kids,\u201d a woman fumes in one of the videos originally presented by Fox<\/em> as being real.<\/p>\n

In the rewritten version of the story, Fox<\/em> keeps the quote \u2014 but acknowledges that the video \u201cappears to be generated by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

As The Bulwark\u2019s <\/em>Tim Miller<\/a> remarked, this would be a ridiculous story for Fox<\/em> to run even if it were real.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s outrageous to try to nit-pick a handful of people you think will play into the racial prejudice of your audience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But the fact that Fox <\/em>chose this slop as the source for a story on SNAP as some 41 million Americans<\/a> are unsure how they\u2019ll afford groceries is outrageous. This seems to be AI\u2019s new role: manufacturing life-like \u201cevidence\u201d to justify harmful narratives. It\u2019s a stupefying sign of things to come as these fakes become harder to distinguish from reality.<\/p>\n

Updated to correct several references to specific AI-generated videos.<\/em><\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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