密西西比州共和党人新近对AI生成广告提出异议，这是“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）阵营正为该州联邦参议院选举感到焦虑的最新迹象。民主党候选人斯科特·科洛姆上周晚些时候表示，他的竞选团队将删除一则借助人工智能工具制作的广告，该广告描绘其共和党对手、参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯匆忙躲避记者的场景，而她以前确实这样做过。这则广告已在网上发布数周，但密西西比州共和党籍总检察长要求科洛姆的竞选团队将其撤下。
Mississippi Republicans’ newfound objection to AI-generated ads is the latest sign that MAGA world is fretting over the state’s U.S. Senate race The Democratic candidate, Scott Colom said late last week that his campaign would delete an ad created with the help of artificial intelligence tools that depicted his Republican opponent, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, hurrying away from reporters, as she has done before The ad has been online for weeks, but Mississippi’s Republican attorney general demanded that Colom’s campaign take it down.
据《密西西比今日报》报道，共和党籍总检察长林恩·菲奇周五表示，联邦参议员民主党提名人斯科特·科洛姆很可能因一则数字广告违反了州法律，该广告采用人工智能生成的画面，描绘共和党参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯逃离记者追问。
According to Mississippi Today Republican Attorney General Lynn Fitch said Friday that Scott Colom, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, likely violated state law with a digital ad that featured an artificial intelligence-generated depiction of Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith running away from reporters.
科洛姆告诉《密西西比今日报》，他将删除该帖子，因为他不希望菲奇动用纳税人的钱提起诉讼。此前，菲奇致函科洛姆投诉，要求他从社交媒体账号上移除该广告。投诉信称，如果他不照做，总检察长办公室可能会向他申请禁令。
Colom told Mississippi Today he would delete the post because he didn’t want Fitch to launch litigation with taxpayer money. That came after Fitch sent Colom a complaint letter demanding that he remove that ad from his social media accounts. If he did not, the complaint said, the attorney general’s office could file an injunction against him.
声明称：“鉴于违反这项选举诚信法可能面临刑事处罚，总检察长菲奇还要求斯科特·科洛姆及其竞选团队保存所有与该事项相关的记录，以免妨碍司法公正。”
“As violations of this election integrity law can carry criminal penalties, Attorney General Fitch has also asked Scott Colom and his campaign to preserve all records related to this matter so as not to obstruct justice,” the statement reads.
文章引述科洛姆的话说，海德-史密斯“显然很绝望”，她的盟友正试图“将司法系统武器化，以转移人们对真正问题的关注，真正的问题是她出卖了我们的农民、出卖了我们的小企业、出卖了我们的家庭。”读者可以自行判断是否相信密西西比州共和党关心AI生成政治广告的祸害，但该党对唐纳德·特朗普总统的坚定支持——他的社交媒体账号已变成政治AI垃圾的污水池——让我对此产生怀疑。
The article quotes Colom as saying Hyde-Smith is “clearly desperate” and that her allies are attempting to “weaponize the justice system to distract from the real issues, which is that she has sold out our farmers, sold out our small businesses, and sold out our families.”You can judge for yourself whether you believe the Mississippi GOP cares about the scourge of AI-generated political ads, but the party’s fierce support for President Donald Trump — whose social media feeds have become cesspools political AI slop— raises doubt in my mind.
在我看来，更有可能的是，密西西比州共和党人正试图削弱科隆的竞选活动，该活动已因另一则针对海德-史密斯的广告而引发哄笑——这场中期选举本是共和党认为不会有竞争力的。
What seems more likely to me is that Mississippi Republicans are trying to undercut Colom’s campaign, which has already garnered laughter for another ad targeting Hyde-Smith — in a midterm race the GOP didn’t think would be competitive.
据报道，共和党人已表达担忧，称在下周的选举中，海德-史密斯的参议员席位似乎因对特朗普和共和党的反弹而对民主党敞开大门。尽管预测者在对竞选结果的估算中给海德-史密斯以优势，但总统在选举日前一周在密西西比州安排集会，反映了这种担忧。这位共和党候选人曾表示，如果她“陷入麻烦”，特朗普会来为她助选，看起来这正是正在发生的事。
Republicans have reportedly voiced concerns that Hyde-Smith’s Senate seat appears to be in play for Democrats in next week’s election, amid backlash toward Trump and the GOP The fact that the president scheduled a rally in Mississippi one week out from Election Day reflects such concerns, despite forecasters giving Hyde-Smith the edge in their estimates of how the race will shake out. The GOP candidate has said Trump would come campaign for her“if I get in trouble,” and it looks like that’s what’s happening.
即便不取得胜利，人们也可以说，如果科隆能改善民主党参议员提名人迈克·埃斯皮在2020年大选中的得票数字，那将是自由派活动人士在密西西比州的一项非凡壮举。该州拥有全国最高比例的黑人合格选民，但——在数十年种族主义选民压制的帮助下——长期几乎完全处于白人保守派的控制之下。
Short of a victory, one could argue that Colom improving on Democratic Senate nominee Mike Espy’s 2020 election numbers would be a remarkable feat for liberal activists in Mississippi, which boasts the largest percentage of Black eligible voters out of any state in the country but has — with help from decades of racist voter suppression— remained almost exclusively under control of white conservatives.
科隆正试图改变这一局面。他的广告证明，他的竞选活动已引起共和党的关注——并有助于佐治亚州民主党参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克的论点，即民主党需要在南方各州投入更多资源。
Colom is looking to change that. His ads prove that his campaign has the GOP’s attention — and help support Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s argument that Democrats need to invest more heavily in Southern states The post In Mississippi’s Senate race, GOP targets Democratic candidate’s ad MS NOW