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Antonia Noori Farzan

Antonia Noori Farzan

Journalist

Aug 28, 2026

13:31
And you looked at a couple of things, but it was an ad by Vic Mellor in the second congressional district about Seth magazine or set the table for.
13:39
Yeah, that's me, because it's the first ad I've seen that has this mandatory disclosure that was required under the deepfake law that passed last year.
13:46
So basically, it starts out, you're seeing magazine or giving a speech, and it seems kind of just like normal footage, but then it zooms in, there's a little cut, and then all of a sudden, there's this room of men who are in suits, and they're counting out stacks of cash, and the idea being, this is who he's really speaking to, not the people.
14:01
So that is artificially enhanced or artificially generated footage.
14:05
Obviously, there's not real men in suits counting out giant... piles of money on the stage.
14:11
So at the end, there is a little thing that flashes where it says paid for by Vic Miller.
14:15
It says that it uses artificial intelligence for forgetting the exact words, basically for imaginary purposes.
17:28
Are you surprised we haven't seen more of this?

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