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The first midterms to feature AI slop ads are also on track to be the most expensive ever. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. A person holds a smartphone displaying President Donald Trump's Truth Social post featuring an AI-generated video of him interacting with a tiger, while a laptop screen in the background shows footage circulated on social media of William Chapman being attacked by a tiger at Britain's Yorkshire Wildlife Park...
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This past weekend I was at a podcast festival and some guy came up to me and was like, Sean Ramaswamy? And I was like, hell no. I'm glad I got out ahead of it because Vivek Ramaswamy, candidate for governor in Ohio,
has given just about everyone in this country except JD Vance the ick this week with an attack at against his opponent that dares to snoop as low as one can possibly go. It's not easy for a mother to say this, that Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past.
I'll spare you the details, but trust me, it's gross. And it reminded us here today, explained from Vox, that we should probably talk about the ads because my goodness, did you know these midterms
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