On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.

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    Absolutely horrible stuff. Another example of how AI can insidiously reproduce someone’s voice or likeness and turn it against them with no moral consequences. AI is perhaps the biggest danger to the world today, even ahead of nuclear arms.

    That these criminal and illegal robocalls were coming from Texas is no surprise, as it’s no doubt the work of some ill-educated sick and socially demented idiot who hates leftists or liberals or any kind of updated progressive thinking. Texas is looking more and more like the #1 refuge of internal terrorists and mentally ill cultists. Very sad.

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      I wouldn’t blame all of Texas it’s a big state with a lot of different people. Casting judgement against the whole state seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me.

      That said I’ve got a feeling we’ll learn a whole lot about Mr. Monk in the coming days. And I agree that AI generated disinformation is going to present an increasing threat to democracies around the globe. It’ll be interesting seeing how this type of attack gets combated.