AI election ad causing controversy for Fort Bend County Judge candidate

Well, early voting is underway in Fort Bend County, and AI is taking center stage in a heated race for county judge. Interim county judge Daniel Wong's campaign is facing some serious backlash after posting and then deleting, but we know the internet lives forever, a social media video that appears to use AI-generated endorsements from black voters. Sacra Gray is live with the video and what both sides have to say. Sacra? Yeah, the question at the center of this is, should candidates be able to use AI enhanced or AI generated endorsements as part of their campaigns? So let's take a look at that video together. Here it is. He gave me a job. He bought me food. He turned on my lights. He helped me find work. At my worst time, we're voting for Daniel Wong. He gave me a job. He bought me food. He turned on my- Interim County Judge Daniel Wong, the Republican nominee and his Democratic challenger, County Commissioner Dexter McCoy have two different takeaways from this video. McCoy says the video is clearly artificial and is raising ethical concerns over the endorsements. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Wong's campaign says an outside supporter actually created the video independently and then sent it to their campaign. They allege that the individuals in the video were indeed real Wong supporters whose likenesses were enhanced with AI. And unfortunately those images were taken to make a video, and those folks were made to say things that they never consented to do. They were completely exploited in this sort of situation, and that's disgusting. I talked to the creator of the video today, and he told me that he received consent. Obviously, it's AI generated. We all know that. But he said he received consent from those people. They are supporters. And like I said, what I'd love to do is make a real video with them in it. says one, they did not create the video, that video was sent from a supporter. And lastly, they allege that all of the individuals in that video did consent to being in it. Now, meanwhile, McCoy says he's calling on the DA to conduct a criminal investigation into this specifically about the use of real individuals in an AI video. Again, at this point, it's all a he said, she said. So what we're looking to do is if you were in that video or you know somebody whose name and likeness were used in that video to reach out to our newsroom so we can get that side of the story as well. Back to you. And, Zachary, as campaign videos keep coming up and going out on social media, how do we as voters make sure that we're not being tricked by AI? Well, it's the time old tale of don't believe everything you see on the Internet, but we spoke with Fox's tech expert who broke down how you can go an extra mile in terms of verifying the content. So there are tools, free tools for example, ZeroGPT or Detector AI, which you can find online. And you can download the video, put it into these websites, and they will tell you with a fair degree of certainty if these videos were either AI assisted or AI generated. As we get closer and closer to election day, I mean, every campaign across the board is ramping up presence when it comes to social media. So, those two sites that he mentioned are ways that you can double check to see that if what you're watching on social media is indeed an organic video, or if it has been having that AI enhancement, back to you.