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NC governor candidate cries AI fabrication as defense for racist porn forum posts

Mark Robinson's claims of AI-generated slander show that the "deep doubt era" is upon us.

On Thursday, CNN reported about inflammatory comments made by Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, on a pornography website's message board over a decade ago. "Look, I'm not going to get into the minutia about how somebody manufactured these salacious tabloid lies, but I can tell you this: There's been over one million dollars spent on me through AI by a billionaire's son who's bound and determined to destroy me," Robinson told CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski in a televised interview, referring to an AI-generated political commercial set to air next week. Mike Nellis, a former senior adviser to Kamala Harris, pointed out the comment in a post on X, saying, "It's already hard enough for people to figure out the truth, without MAGA politicians and conspiracy theorists blaming AI for anything that makes them look bad.

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