"The video, which was A.I.-generated, was meant to look like a Fox News segment announcing the arrival of a medbed hospital-a kind of fantastical facility that uses advanced technology to more or less magically treat everything that ails the human body. Remarkably, the video included an A.I.-generated video of Trump himself talking; the promotion of this video from his account seemed, bafflingly, to make the announcement look legitimate."
"Over the weekend, the president of the United States posted an A.I.-generated video of himself making a major announcement. The post, which was made on TruthSocial, prompted an online furor among those familiar with conspiracy theories, because it promoted a particularly fringe one, even by the standards of an administration that has pushed anti-vaccine paranoia onto the public and advanced widespread falsehoods about a presidential election."
An A.I.-generated 37-second video was posted on TruthSocial portraying a faux Fox News segment that announced a medbed hospital and national medbed cards. The clip featured an A.I.-generated depiction of Donald Trump speaking from the Resolute Desk and B-roll of gleaming hospitals and futuristic technology. The medbed claim presents a fantastical technology that purportedly treats many ailments and stems from fringe conspiracy communities, inconsistent with established science. The post was deleted the following morning. The incident heightened concerns because of prior dissemination of anti-vaccine paranoia and election falsehoods linked to the administration.
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