Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads
Summary
Victoria’s Labor and Liberal parties have used AI-generated videos in their campaigns ahead of the state election. Labor’s video depicts Liberal leader Jess Wilson making claims about the cost of U.S.-style health care that she did not say, while the Liberals have posted AI-generated videos of Premier Ben Carroll; experts and the Greens have called for a ban on the practice.Key Facts
- Labor posted an AI-generated video showing Jess Wilson warning that a heart attack would cost $150,000 under U.S.-style health care.
- Wilson’s remarks at a press conference concerned a Liberal plan to pay private hospitals to perform public elective surgeries.
- Wilson said she was not proposing to Americanise Victoria’s health system and called Labor’s video a smear campaign.
- Premier Ben Carroll defended Labor’s video by citing Wilson’s earlier comments about Americanising the health system.
- The Liberal campaign called Labor’s video “garbage.”
- The Liberals have also posted AI-generated videos depicting Carroll asleep at his desk.
- Advance Australia released an AI-generated video depicting a Labor election victory, and One Nation showed a video featuring people from various ethnic backgrounds at its launch.
- Transparency International Australia chief executive Clancy Moore said AI-generated political ads could further erode trust in politicians and democracy.
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