Twice now I've seen videos with Rachel Maddow that look to me to be faked -

[Conjuay]

The one tonight was about the attack going on in Moscow close to the Kremlin. She appears rather robotic and unexpressive.

Am I seeing an AI version of her?

[eShirl]

1. I know there are fake videos of her out there recently, sounds like this is one of them

[2naSalit]

2. Probably...

There seems to be one a day at least.

[highplainsdem]

3. Yes. There are YouTube channels with lots of AI slop videos featuring AI fakes of her.

[electric_blue68]

4. Yes. I saw one sent to me, not the one you probably mentioned

[delisen]

5. I believe they are fakes. They show a picture of her and the voice sounds like her

They are well scripted. In the one I watched,, however, the AI voice mispronounced a word.
I don’t know who is putting them out there.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. If they were genuine, they would be branded

with MS NOW or similar. But the creators don’t want to get sued.

[EdmondDantes_]

11. This is your best clue. Was the video on the MS NOW channel?

If not, probably an AI fake.

[fierywoman]

7. I've also see fake AI slop of Jasmine Crockett -- look to who is putting up the video ...

[canetoad]

8. Somewhere on the YouTube site

You should find info about the video and whether it's AI or not. But beware - this info is not always there. Look in the video description; sometimes it's slipped in right at the end. Or go to the channel page and look at the 'About' section.

[Inkey]

9. Yes probably

These fake videos have been increasing for a couple of years.
Don't believe everything you see on the internet !

[ABC123Easy]

10. Could be

I just watched an AI fake of George Will describing a secret meeting of GOP Senate leaders. He mispronounced John Thunes name over and over.....my first clue it was fake. Took about 3 minutes in for me to tell.

[Disaffected]

12. There are many out there - both Maddow and others.

The fakes usually have an unnatural cadence, inflection and pronunciation to their speech which is pretty easy to detect if you look (listen) for it. Also look for exactly repetitive hand motions or facial expressions. There is also one particular male voice that shows up in a lot of fakes.

A casual listener probably wouldn't notice as the fakes are pretty good and getting better. I expect before long it will be difficult to impossible to tell the difference.

[orangecrush]

13. Yes

I have seen fakes of her

[Marie Marie]

14. Yeah, all of a sudden my You Tube recommendations are filled with political AI videos filled

with much opinion stated as fact and Rachel's were among them. I could tell just by looking at her pic that it wasn't her. Also have seen George Will pop up.

[bigtree]

15. careful

...now you'll get a string of similar AI fakes on your timeline.

Don't click on political stuff from sources you don't recognize and trust.