A GOP attack ad deepfakes Chuck Schumer with AI

Shannon Bond

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October 17, 2025 / 2:58 pm

A new attack ad from Senate Republicans uses Sen. Chuck Schumer's real words about the government shutdown — but in an AI deepfake of the Democratic Senate Minority Leader.

The 30-second video posted on X and YouTube by the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Friday raised alarms among many observers who warned it crossed a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads.

Captioned on X "Week 3 of the Schumer Shutdown: 'Every day gets better for us'," the video shows an AI-generated version of Schumer repeatedly saying those words and grinning. The video concludes with Schumer smiling as a narrator says, "The Schumer shutdown is m

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