GOP attack ad depicts James Talarico as Maria in 'The Sound of Music'

Slime every mountain: A pro-Trump PAC is airing a deepfake AI ad featuring James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, in Maria's signature pinafore singing a parody of ''My Favorite Things'' from Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The Sound of Music.'' The computer-generated Talarico sings: ''Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes/ Girls dosed with hormones til they grow mustaches. Changing the gender of all your offspring/ These are a few of my favorite things.”

Ugh. The ad, bought by ''Citizens for Sanity,'' never displays any disclaimer that the on-screen Talarico is AI-generated. AI ads like this ought to be illegal.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/james-talarico-gop-deepfake-ai

Alex Kulak2 said: "The legality of AI deepfakes may still be murky, but the legality of copyright infringement sure isn't. "

Sadly, I think it's protected as "parody". Still, I'm so sick of these morons.