It's not weird. This is a libelous attack on someone's reputation, so spreading it more (even in a "look at this bullshit" context) could increase the harm. It's journalistic integrity, and it's what I would expect in any case discussing someone's fraudulently made document that attempts to accuse someone else of saying something they never did.
Once it's out there it will keep spreading and there will always be some who believe it and they may for a long time. Reputational damage is permanent. Libel and slander are serious crimes.
You can find it if you try I'm sure.
This is disgusting behavior. It should be prosecuted. And laws need to be updated to make intentionally and knowingly publicly publishing deep fakes without the written consent of the subject a serious felony (using the existing reasonable person standard to determine whether the average joe might be fooled)
So it's this "weird" supercut Musk retweeted by Dave Rubin today?
RT: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1818085240595693728 OP: https://x.com/RubinReport/status/1818083579445866884
But apart from one sentence uttered by Kamala Harris in the begining, I don't see her and I have no idea if this video is AI or not (it doesn't seem like it). I scrolled back to the 28th of July of all his public tweets and there's no video with Kamala Harris. What now? Did he delete it? Did X remove it because of some policy violation? Is it gone because someone called their lawyer?
Looks like we'll never know because the journalist didn't link to their source.
And of course I've gotten quite a lot of exposure to all the other stuff he keeps on ranting about. I didn't know Google News and search suggestions filtered out lots of stuff about Donald Trump (whom I am not supporting/voting for and I'm also not American) so... I don't know if it's that smart of a move to not just link to a probably rather terrible AI video instead.
I remember when it was kinda consensus that journalists are supposed to link to their sources. Maybe I'm just old-school and we're now letting anyone and their horse write articles about politics under the guise of journalism.
If there was some incredibly good AI disinformation campaign on the day of the election, I might be willing to bite the "could increase harm" aspect of this, but in this case, it's quite obvious that this video (that I still haven't seen) is going to sway an election.
Whatever. I'm not even expecting serious journalism from lifestyle gadget magazines like The Verge.