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Old John Lewis advert has been altered to include a fake voiceover ‘by Kamala Harris’
An old advert for the UK department store John Lewis is being shared on social media with a fake voiceover supposedly by US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, with claims it is an official campaign advert.
The original advert is from 2021, and shows a child in a dress, heels and makeup making a mess around a house to the tune of the Stevie Nicks song Edge of Seventeen.
The edited version being shared online includes a Harris-Walz logo and a voiceover which sounds like Ms Harris discussing abortion rights in the US. Towards the end of the video the voice says women should have a right to decide “so we don’t wind up living with a child like this”, followed by laughter...
AI expert Professor Hany Farid told the BBC that the voiceover is AI-generated, citing clues such as the way the word “by” is pronounced.
Although the Harris-Walz campaign has featured adverts on the topic of abortion, none of them feature this voiceover...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
