CNBC, Fmr. Sen. Heitkamp: Biden Didn’t Wander Off in Italy

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HEITKAMP: "The technology has been there to use slow motion, to try and use other kinds of technologies other than AI. The thing about that video is it was first alt — not altered, but the dimensions was changed by the RNC, was picked up by the New York Post, it was spread broadly around, I think at one point I think 3 million hits. Guess what? They have reputational risk and that shouldn’t have happened. You know, when you hear the explanation of what President Biden was doing, it makes perfect sense that he was watching something off in the distance, but it makes it look like he was staring at nothing. So, you know, I call on the DNC, the RNC and all the legitimate political organizations to stop it. I mean, if you want to play a video, play a video, but make sure that it hasn’t been altered. The problem with AI is that it is so intuitive and most people can use it, and so it can really fall in the hands of a lot of nefarious actors, people who don’t have reputational risk, that we can't call to the carpet, especially foreign actors who may have a stake in this outcome. And so this, I think, it goes back to common sense. You will not have an easy way to figure out whether this is real or not. I always tell people, if somebody wants you to look at this and say, 'Isn’t this horrible?' you should automatically think, 'You know, maybe that didn’t happen. Maybe I need to find out if that’s actually what happened and what the voices actually said.'"