NJ-07: Campaign mailer in House race spawns accusations of AI manipulation

A leading Democratic candidate in the race to take on Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. raised alarms over apparently doctored images in a mailer highlighting her opposition to abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The mailer, sent by an independent expenditure group, depicts a smiling Rebecca Bennett standing among officers decked in riot gear and declares the candidate is “standing for ICE” and “wrong for New Jersey.”

Bennett, who is the lone Democrat in the 7th District House race to stop short of calling for ICE to be abolished, called the mailer unconvincing.

“This is the best you’ve got? This like really crappy AI-generated version of me, it doesn’t even look like me. If you’re going to send out attack ads, you might want to upgrade from the freemium version of ChatGPT,” she said in a video posted to social media




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