People, please do NOT post videos that AREN'T Harris campaign ads and say that they are.

[highplainsdem]

We have an example of that at https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219258014 with more than 100 recs.

Please see my reply 25 there.

The video is from a Twitter account I'd never heard of, identified in the profile as a content creator in the UK.

Nice video, and it does give the link for Harris's website at the end, but it does NOT come from the campaign.

Please don't share videos like this and say they are campaign videos.

[krawhitham]

1. WOW

[getagrip_already]

2. Hey, a lot of these are VERY good, please dont ban them

Maybe just don't represent them as "official" campaign videos.

Midas touch, the lincoln project, and several other channels have posted excellent ad like videos.

I absolutely want to see those.

[highplainsdem]

4. Those are properly identified and from groups we're familiar with. This was misrepresented as a Harris campaign

ad, and it's from a UK group I've never heard of. They might mean well, but their videos should NOT be presented as from the campaign.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Why is it still up?

[highplainsdem]

5. I think people assumed it was a campaign ad, and no one checked, including the DUer who posted it.

God knows where it's been copied already and misrepresented as from Harris's campaign.

[Attilatheblond]

6. Probably because no one alerted on it?

[highplainsdem]

8. I'm guessing it was an innocent mistake by the DUer who posted it, but they need to be more careful.

[mahina]

18. One of many recently

[highplainsdem]

19. I know.

[moonscape]

22. And need not to post stuff

from random Twitter accounts without verifying.

If it’s not an account one is following, or which is known … that place is a cesspool. I say that as someone who is still on it for the good that’s still there, but definitely a landmine.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. We need a

Misinformation Alert

[Jack-o-Lantern]

7. Meh, a tempest in a teapot.

[highplainsdem]

9. No, it isn't. The campaign chooses their messages and ads, and nothing should be misrepresented as

an official message or ad when it isn't.

The Twitter account didn't claim it was a video from the campaign. The DUer who posted it made a mistake, should have been more careful, and I hope that any DUers that posted it elsewhere as an official ad will correct those posts, or delete them if they can't correct them.

The group with that Twitter account and posting these videos SHOULD label them clearly, to avoid confusion.

[MustLoveBeagles]

28. A reminder to all of us to be mindful of what we post

[ecstatic]

10. great ad! nt

[highplainsdem]

12. Their official ads are better, IMO, and this should never have been posted as an official campaign ad.

[orthoclad]

11. Weird, isn't it?

[highplainsdem]

14. More a mess than weird.

[orthoclad]

23. Lot of weird mess going on lately.

[WarGamer]

13. +1000 nt

[highplainsdem]

15. Thank you.

[orange jar]

16. This isn't the first time that poster has done something like this.

They've posted a few, like, painfully obvious photoshopped photos and have presented them as real endorsements/posts.

Not trying to call them out or anything, and it very well could be a well-meaning poster who just isn't aware that they're fake. But… it's definitely a pattern.

[highplainsdem]

17. I just replied to their post recommending people use a generative AI tool to ask questions about

Project 2025.

Sigh. Asking flawed software that hallucinates for answers...

[orange jar]

20. I saw that, too.

It's definitely interesting. Also, not really sure why you'd even need AI to do that.

[highplainsdem]

21. You don't, but there are already people who are becoming AI dependent, which the AI companies encourage. Did you

see this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219253008

[moonscape]

24. I participate in a lot of market research for

health-related issues. In the last year, a box started popping up that one would not be compensated if one’s words were not one’s own but were AI generated.

People cheat talking about their own health?!

[highplainsdem]

25. There are AI tools encouraging people to use AI to write almost everything for them, especially

online.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218633311

The AI companies have done an incredible amount of damage already.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218687511

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219104719

[moonscape]

29. Damage indeed. Those

so-called peer reviewed illustrations are remarkable. Remarkably frightening.

[orange jar]

27. Wow.

I don't even know what to say to this. Of course, I imagine that Google is encouraging the use of AI because they want people to use Gemini. Same for Google's competitors.

But, my god.

Yes, let's encourage children to use as little of their own voice as possible and stunt the development of their communication skills. That won't result in a horrifying future at all.

The way companies are increasingly trying to shoehorn AI into every single thing humans do is truly tiresome — not to mention a complete catastrophe for workers who will lose their jobs because "AI can do it." We're heading down a truly dystopian (I know that word is a bit overused these days, but it's quite accurate) road and all these corporations and tech firms do not give a single fuck. It's so depressing to watch.

[highplainsdem]

31. It's a generative AI bubble. These companies are losing billions because AI is so expensive, and there

are signs the venture capital money will start drying up. Plus there are all those lawsuits for theft of intellectual property. The companies are trying to get flawed, hallucinating AI used as widely as possible not only to generate income, but to be able to argue in court that their AI models are so important to society that their IP theft should be forgiven.

[Grown2Hate]

26. I have to whole heartedly agree.

Some of these ads can be inspirational and fun, when properly attributed as 3rd party.

Otherwise, they may include clips, language, or messaging that the actual campaign would be careful to avoid (in this particular ad in question, even some here questioned why they'd show an old clip of VP Harris acting giddy that President Biden was no longer the nominee).

These are fun, but the official ads are better (more careful and precise; not to say they are not hard hitting, but careful in the sense that they avoid getting the wrong message across).

[highplainsdem]

30. Thank you. I've added more replies to that other thread, clearing up a misunderstanding created by

the video creator with that Truth Forward account linking to Democracy Forward's site. He has no connection to Democracy Forward. He's a Brit, and I believe his support of the Harris campaign is sincere, but he's just an individual content creator making his own ads, with his Twitter account linked to a Patreon account if people want to support him.

[highplainsdem]

32. kick