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Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads

The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1, news) 2026-11-04T23:00:46.000Z Original ↗

Discourse valence

-50

Adverse

confidence 80% · 1 item

-100

-50

+50

+100

-50

Adverse readingFavourable reading

Single-model reading. This item did not meet the threshold for a multi-model panel.

Governance and regulation Synthetic media and manipulation Concentration of power

Excerpt as ingested

Transparency and advertising experts say trust in politics could be further eroded as a result of ‘lies, deepfakes and AI-generated politicians’ Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast It’s the night of Halloween and Jess Wilson has appeared on social media feeds with a warning about a scary prospect: “Americanised healthcare” under a future Liberal government. “If you had a heart attack, you would have to pay $150,000 for care,” the Victorian Liberal leader says, mid-trick or treat. Continue reading...

Every model that read this

Model	Provider	Stage	Score	Conf.	Latency	Prompt	When
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	analysis	-50	80%	3279ms	v1.0.0 / m1.0.1	2026-11-05 00:17

Llama 3.3 70B · reading

AI-generated videos can erode trust in politics

evidence: reported horizon: n/a

Evidence extracted

AI-generated videos can deceive voters
Deepfakes can spread lies

The chain

SOURCE     The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1)
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DOCUMENT   994c2dcd-e48a-4ee5-8900-c7153787db2e
           https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/05/victoria-election-2026-ai-generated-video-ads-ntwnfb
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EVIDENCE   2 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      -50  (Adverse)
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CONFIDENCE 80%