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Dean Phillips distances himself from campaign operative who reportedly paid $1 for AI-generated Biden deepfake
Longshot Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips‚ D-Minn.‚ is distancing himself from a report that one of his campaign's former consultants hired a magician to create a deepfake of President Biden urging New Hampshire voters not to participate in last month’s primary.
Paul Carpenter‚ a magician from New Orleans‚ came forward and said he had made the deepfake for $1 and that a Democratic consultant Steve Kramer had paid him $150 to do it‚ according to an NBC report. Kramer...