{"id":440373,"date":"2026-01-31T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:43:19","slug":"republican-governor-hopeful-accused-of-using-ai-in-violation-of-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440373\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Governor Hopeful Accused of Using AI in Violation of State Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has been accused of using AI in a campaign ad without disclosure, which would be a violation of state law. Tiffany\u2019s &#8220;<a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TomTiffanyWI\/videos\/dont-fear-the-mailman-i-will-lower-your-property-taxes\/1751264848872503\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TomTiffanyWI\/videos\/dont-fear-the-mailman-i-will-lower-your-property-taxes\/1751264848872503\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Fear the Mailman<\/a>&#8221; ad December 2025 shows a mailman delivering a letter with \u201c400 YEAR PROPERTY TAX INCREASE\u201d written on it across it. Tomas Dodds, an AI expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told local outlet Isthmus that the ad contained irregularities that certainly \u201cpoint toward an AI-generated video.\u201d \u201cGone are the days when people in AI-generated videos will have six fingers and eyes pointing in different directions,\u201d Dodds told the outlet. \u201cThere are many inconsistencies that you can use to question this .\u201d Some irregularities that Dodds noted include rust being on the mailbox in one shot, but not the next, and branches of a tree that do not appear to be connected to a trunk. Tiffany, a current House Republican, is the leading candidate on the GOP side of the Wisconsin gubernatorial race. In 2024, Wisconsin passed a law requiring that the use of AI in political advertisements be disclosed, by clearly including the message \u201cThis content generated by AI,\u201d but nowhere in Tiffany\u2019s ad does it disclose that AI was used. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/isthmus.com\/news\/news\/disclaimer-missing-on-likely-ai-generated-tom-tiffany-campaign-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at ISTHMUS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has been accused of using AI in a campaign ad without disclosure,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[144247,182,181,507,74,1745],"class_list":{"0":"post-440373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-2026-midterm-elections","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-wisconsin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}