Japan election: AI-doctored video of campaign broadcast goes viral

TOKYO – A doctored version of a “campaign broadcast” by Japan’s Centrist Reform Alliance for the Feb 8 House of Representatives election has gone viral on the X social media platform. Altered via artificial intelligence (AI) to show the party’s co-chairmen Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito dancing together, the video had been viewed more than 1.6 million