"Screenshot Fox News is drawing heat from media industry observers for getting duped by an AI-generated video and then failing to take sufficient accountability for the error. In a piece published Friday to Foxnews.com, writer Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi posted about SNAP beneficiaries threatening to loot stores amid the government shutdown. The piece, originally headlined SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown, quoted Black women claiming to be SNAP recipients complaining about the cutoff of benefits due to the shutdown."
"Fox News was promptly called out for running with a phony video. In a 7-minute video titled Fox News Got Duped by AIand Lied About It, The Bulwark's Tim Miller trashed Fox for horrific news judgment in falling for the fake footage. Fox News got fooled by a series of racist AI videos purporting to be Black women complaining about losing their SNAP benefits, and they reported those complaints' made computers pretending to be humans as if they were real news, Miller said."
Fox News ran a post reporting that SNAP beneficiaries threatened to ransack stores amid a government shutdown, quoting videos of Black women accusing benefit cuts. The videos were later revealed to be AI-generated and inauthentic. Media critics condemned the outlet for failing to verify the footage and for poor news judgment in treating fabricated clips as real. The outlet changed the headline to reference AI videos and added a brief editor's note stating some videos appeared generated by AI and that the report was corrected. Screenshots of the original and revised headlines circulated widely, fueling additional backlash.
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