The institutional change is that synthetic media is no longer arriving only as an attack on campaigns. It is being adopted by campaigns as a production method, with AI-generated content have run in races at multiple levels and a Louisiana super PAC presenting an AI-made spot as a first in state politics through its first-ever 100% AI-generated political advertisement claim. That changes the enforcement target: regulators are not chasing anonymous manipulation from outside the system; they are confronting authorized political speech made cheaper, faster, and harder to parse at a…