During Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," Michael Che used OpenAI's Sora to insert Colin Jost into a 1992 video of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The doctored footage showed Jost dancing at the party, much to his visible discomfort and the audience's amusement. This stunt highlights AI's growing role in satire, blurring lines between reality and fabrication.
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