I don't know what the dark fantasy attack ad that the GOP ran cost them to produce. But let me show you what I did with $10 and five hours starting from scratch. And why it should concern you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag41dB3rwm8&t=3s

This video would have cost nothing at all, but because I was unfamiliar with Midjourney, I fumbled around enough that I had to pay $10 to get more images generated without waiting. The video itself was stuck together with iMovie, which I hadn't touched in years. ...

I'm not posting this because I'm some AI imagery expert or video editing genius. It's that I'm very much NOT. The ease with which images of things that haven't happened can be generated, and then strung together in a way that can be convincing, or carry emotional impact, is extremely concerning. ...

Remember how last election cycle was full of bots fronting memes, and fake articles supposedly from news sites? Expect this election cycle to be one in which people are throwing realistic videos, many of them containing unspeakable images, so thickly that the impact of actual news will be like trying to pick one flake out of a blizzard.