NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo was taken in by a painfully obvious deepfake of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking about a controversial Sydney Sweeney ad on the floor of Congress.
The newsman, who once held a primetime slot on CNN, raged on Wednesday about a clip posted to Instagram by the account MemeRunnerGPT. The video shows a recreation of AOC on Capitol Hill, delivering a speech that includes phrases like “sultry little temptress” and “ocean-blue eyes that could resurrect the Führer from his grave in Argentina.”
“Nothing about Hamas or people burning Jews’ cars…but Sweeney jeans ad?” Cuomo asked of the video, whose watermark read “parody 100% made with AI.” “Deserved time on floor of Congress? What [happened] to this party?”
AOC responded directly to Cuomo’s post to let him know