Japan's election turns into a stress test for AI-made misinformation
Ourtake
The fakes are convincing, the platforms reward them, and now even real crowds need an alibi.
What happened
During Japan's lower house election, AI-generated fake videos and fabricated news spread rapidly on social media. One AI-generated channel of grandmothers ranting about politics reached nearly six million views. A candidate's authentic rally video was wrongly flagged as AI-generated by the chatbot Grok.