{"id":6487,"date":"2025-11-05T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/newsmax-airs-ai-video-real\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:16:07","slug":"newsmax-airs-ai-video-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/newsmax-airs-ai-video-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Believe it or not, another right wing news network got fooled by obvious AI slop designed to denigrate poor people who can\u2019t get food because their food stamps are on hold.<\/p>\n

On October 30, Newsmax<\/em> \u2014 the TV network for people who think Fox News<\/em> is too liberal, basically \u2014 aired an AI-generated video purportedly showing a woman raging at a supermarket cashier, threatening to walk out with her haul of groceries without paying because \u201cthey cut her food stamps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video is fake. And it\u2019s the same one that the actual Fox <\/em>presented as genuine<\/a> in an article it ran to drum up outrage over the perceived abuses of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides vital food assistance to nearly one in eight Americans every month and has been a long target of the right \u2014 and is now under more pressure than ever amid a lengthy government shutdown that\u2019s leaving it short of the money it needs to feed people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an alarming example of how ubiquitous AI tech is being used to deepfake our reality and spread misinformation \u2014 and a preview of its potential to be abused to attack political foes.<\/p>\n

Newsmax <\/em>used the fifteen second AI clip in a recent segment<\/a> called \u201cThe Cost of Free Stuff,\u201d in which news anchor Carl Higbie bashes the \u201centitlement\u201d of SNAP beneficiaries \u2014 all of whom live near or below the poverty line, and many of whom are also children, elderly, or disabled.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps that person is in that position because of their own decisions and should make better life choices,\u201d says Higbie of the millions of people who are now uncertain if they\u2019ll be able to feed themselves or their family. \u201cI think the government shutdown has woken people up to this entitlement and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Higbie then pivots to making fun of SNAP recipients for their weight, which is when the AI video is played. Meanwhile, the chyron reads: \u201cWe Are Only Nation Where Poor People Are Obese.\u201d\u00a0Higbie even projects his own idea about the life of the woman in the video, who is AI-generated.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy feeding people this junk, they get less healthy like the woman I just showed you,\u201d Higby said, referring to the AI simulacrum.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m willing to bet she\u2019s probably also on some sort of government healthcare subsidy program as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she isn\u2019t, because she\u2019s not real. The clip was likely generated with OpenAI\u2019s Sora 2 video app, which released last month and has already proved capable of fabricating convincing footage of people committing crimes<\/a>. The AI clip\u2019s length of fifteen seconds is the maximum duration allowed for standard Sora users to generate.<\/p>\n

Newsmax<\/em>, however, has kept the clip up on its social media pages<\/a> without a correction, which feels like in any other age would be a huge scandal. The flub was egregious enough that it was flagged in a video<\/a> by Newsmax <\/em>commentator and intelligence analyst Ryan McBeth, who explained away the blunder as an innocent mistake with no nefarious intent behind it.<\/p>\n

Further salvaging Newsmax<\/em>\u2018s image, McBeth says he gathered evidence of the clip\u2019s AI origins and sent it directly to Newsmax <\/em>CEO Christopher Ruddy, who \u201ctakes stuff like this seriously,\u201d and who responded by saying the network would issue a correction, McBeth claimed. We can\u2019t verify whether it did, but we reiterate: the clips of the segment are still displayed on Newsmax<\/em>\u2018s socials.<\/p>\n

The greater context, of course, is that the American right has proudly embraced using AI to churn out political imagery<\/a>. The Trump administration frequently uses AI images to mock its political foes<\/a> and glorify the president<\/a>, while racist influencers spread AI-faked videos<\/a> of Black people saying they\u2019re going to sell their food stamps for cash. Expect to see more incidents like this in the future, where AI will enable dubious news organizations to spread misinformation first and issue unseen corrections later.<\/a><\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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