Anyone who regularly deals with confused boomer grandparents will likely have watched them completely believe in obviously AI-generated videos. The best solution is to nod and smile politely as they show you yet another fake video of a brave dog rescuing a screaming baby from a river, or a deepfaked Elon Musk promising to give out his riches.
As he approaches his 80th birthday, Donald Trump is squarely in the confused boomer demographic. But even with all we know about his sagging rat’s nest of a brain, we didn’t expect him to be fooled by an AI-generated video of… himself?
