Earlier this week I was watching a video after which I was suggested a video by Rachel Maddow that turned out to be a deep fake. While I have heard much about deep fake videos this was my first known encounter. I reached out for a little help on a site I frequent called democraticundergound.com. Here is what I wrote:

Is there a fake Rachel Maddow YouTube channel called ‘Maddow’s brief’?

I was watching a video on YouTube and when it finished among the recommended choices was what was purported to be a Maddow video concerning Canada cutting off potash shipments to the US. Sounded interesting and important. I had not heard something like that happening.

I started to watch and after a couple of minutes I noticed that she was using her hands a lot. Hadn’t seen that before from her. I stopped the video to look at the notes for the video but couldn’t get it on my TV.

I started watching again and stopped after about 10 seconds. This sure didn’t seem like Rachel.

After doing some looking I concluded it was an AI deep fake. So how can someone take a person like Rachel and basically use her image to sell lies? And if that is true what could Rachel do to stop them?

Thanks for any help.

One of the responses pointed me to this video of Rick Wilson of Lincoln Project fame. Included in the notes for the video is a step by step on how to report what is generally called AI slop on YouTube these days: (8 minutes):

 

Also, here is Rachel herself addressing the slop issue (8 minutes):