Governor hopeful used AI to to simulate a meeting with his dead father

Pernambuco governor hopeful João Campos (PSB-PE) used artificial intelligence to simulate a meeting with his father, who died in 2014. The politician posted a video on his official Instagram account showing both of them riding horses together while holding the flag of Pernambuco, a northeastern Brazilian state. “The Cowboy’s Mass is a tradition passed down from generation to generation,” reads the caption.

The content is ultra-realistic but shows signs of synthetic media, such as excessive symmetry in the images and a plastic-like appearance. The politician also signaled the use of the technology through text accompanying the images and a platform tag.