A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms, and Teenager Kills 4 at Oregon Elementary School

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  From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

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  I'm Tracy Mumford.

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  Today's Friday, October 16th.

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  Here's what we're covering.

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  Across the country, TV and social media have been flooded with a wave of political ads that were made with AI.

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  Hi, I'm Zoran Mamdani.

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  And I'm Kathy Hochul.

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  And together we're making New York.

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  Don't say affordable.

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  An analysis by a research group at Wesleyan University looked at more than 200 midterm ads that used AI-generated

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  imagery and found that candidates and political action groups spent nearly $140 million promoting them.

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  James stumbled the worst trying to explain why he said President Trump couldn't be trusted.

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  The AI tweaks range from small, innocuous edits to full-on deep fakes of prominent Democrats

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  and candidates locked in tight races.

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  For example, one ad from the group Make Oklahoma Great Again showed

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