A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harrissaying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away.
The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday evening without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody.
The video uses many of the same visuals as a real ad that Harris, the likely Democratic president nominee, released last week launching her campaign. But the video swaps out the voice-over audio with another voice that convincingly impersonates Harris.
I wish he’d take some more LSD. Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll turn into a humanitarian.
I would have settled for a lethal dose of fentanyl.
It’s amazing people don’t see him as a racist manchild.
You’d have to be astonishingly stupid to think this was real. Unfortunately …
It’s MAGA, Trump told us that he loved the uneducated right out of the gate
“Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large groups.”
Less stupidity than cynicism.
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
Cynicism implies you know better but you’re playing along for political gain.
It always baffles me to say she’s unqualified when she objectively has more relevant work experience than Trump.
Also the “try to sound black” part is just… there’s a lot to unpack there.
Yes, but woman.
That’s all the convincing the MAGA crowd need to view someone as unqualified for leadership.
Flood twitter with JD Vance couch fucking AI content and see how fast Musk makes them disappear.
This is the way
Hey guys, it’s me JD, JD Vance here to react to the latest IKEA commercial. I thought the last one was kind of lame, it was really unexciting to be honest. The couches were barely featured. It was mostly bathroom footage, which is totally boring. But maybe they’ve turned it around. I mean, I doubt it, but let’s see. Let’s hit play.
Oh shit, is that a love seat… uuugghhhharrahhh
Ah, so he’s also into the “petite” category!
Or real pictures of Trump’s ear
“My name is JD Vance and I approve this loveseat.”
JD Vance is Sofa King
we knew this was coming. no shock it came from this cum rag
Elon is a cancer on society.
Conservatives are a cancer on society
Billionaires?
Ha, nice to see my version of that meme making the rounds. The original one (well, the one I edited anyhow) had it as “powiticians”
They deserve to be taxed until they no longer exist.
A cancer on society.
What about cancer?
A cancer on society
An Elon on society.
Billionares on society
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
An Elon to the body, and society
An Elon on society.
This is very recursive and I’m here for it.
Somebody should do something about it.
#Elonectomy2024
Circumcision is not the answer.
(The video) claims Harris is a “diversity hire” because she is a woman and a person of color, and it says she doesn’t know “the first thing about running the country.”
Classy as always right wingers. /s
“This former AG, Senator, and VP has no idea how to run this country!” - Conservative Clowns everywhere.
But the game show host and the hillbilly writer can run the country, Amiright?
Hey now… he was also the inspiration for most of the villains in the movies we watched as kids.
It’s not mentioned in the article, but the fake voice in the video also says “Another trick I have is to try and sound black.” It’s really bad.
Always singing the same old songs.
Republican leadership and their mythical moderates: “Guys we have to stop the personal attacks, they’re making us look bad and just help Harris”
They seem to sometimes forget who all is in the party lmao. This is who they are.
Surely this is illegal, right? Right??
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In Minnesota it is illegal up to 90 days before the election.
I don’t know all the state laws, but there are more.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-2024-election-states-rcna129525
That’s for sexual acts. I’m still reading it though, but where does elections come into play?
Edit: found it. Section 2. Sorry.
So if Musk doesn’t delete his post before (let’s see) August 7, he is still arguably disseminating it and violating the law, huh?
Just read through the part about punishment, and it’d be 90 days in jail and a $1000 fine. Even I could afford that. 🙄
It’s the jail time that’s important. I’d guess Musk would spend a billion dollars to not have to go to jail for 90 days.
Also we’re 100 days out. If Elon did this again within 90 days, and he sent the tweet from Texas or something. Would Minnesota or another state law be able to hold him accountable? Since of course the tweet would be seen across the country. I wonder what would happen. The senate is working on a federal law, but I doubt the house will be very cooperative before the election.
It might be… But if it wasn’t, someone shouldn’t make a video of Trump talking about that he already won and that no one needs to vote… Please don’t do this! It would be very wrong if someone did this! His supporters might be filled and stay home…
No one do this!
I… hmmmm… I feel like there’s a secret message here waiting to be decoded.
Any lawyers know if this could be prosecuted? This seems pretty big though I’m not familiar with US’s defamation laws when it comes to politics and deepfakes.
Shouldn’t conercerns already be raised pretty high.
Indeed! I’m also extremely concerned about musk/billionaires in politics. Gee, am I over reacting? /s
It was one of the first anyone thought of. Not sure how they think this is a new concern.
raising concerns about AI in politics
Anyone else more concerned about narcissistic bigoted billionaires in politics? 🙋♂️
Why not both?
Definitely both – although still probably better to be more concerned about the billionaires
Technically, anyone sharing this-who knows it’s fake-should be tried and convicted for election interference and treason.
Raining concerns about
AIElon Mollusk.I would hope this falls under libel laws and makes Musk culpable for a lawsuit and/or gag order.
I can’t believe a rightwing piece of shit would knowingly spread mis/disinformation. Except that they all do. Lying liars.
An old well developed technology needs to be adopted and the public needs to be educated on its use. AI cannot defeat cryptographic signatures which could be used to verify the authorship and the integrity of any digital content. I would support laws that help facilitate mass adoption of this technology. PGP is 33 years old.
Probably not pgp as it’s been thoroughly broken… but I get what you’re saying
Pgp is an application. Algorithms get broken, not applications.
Eh. Old small RSA keys can be broken and PGP is quirky enough to not be good for automatic scripted validation. But 4096 bit RSA or ECC or newer PQ algorithms still works fine and there’s newer schemes for signatures that are solid
It still bugs me how little general public knows about this. Even shows don’t have a clue, or are scared to explain this.
Like this is a solved problem, please please please just use the solution that has been here for the entire time.
The “general public” has very little knowledge about most of what happens in society.
They don’t understand where everything that keeps them alive comes from, let alone how the internet or deerpfakes or so-called “AI” works.
