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.
Elon is a cancer on society.
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.
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.
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.
Always singing the same old songs.
That is election fraud and Elon should be in jail.
How isn’t this… disparagement? Or defamation or whatever (I’m not a lawyer).
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Whoever created it is more likely to be able to be successfully prosecuted (assuming they could be identified) than the person or people spreading it.
The person who uploaded it to Twitter labeled it as parody. Musk then retweeted it without that parody marker.
You could argue it isn’t parody, but that is tricker.
This Elon Musk Tweet was bought and paid for by Russia and Saudi Arabia— and sponsored by the letter Q and the number 88
Transcript:
“I, Kamala Harris, senior Democrat candidate for President because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility of debate. Thanks, Joe.
I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire. I’m both a woman and a person of color. So if you criticize anything I say, you’re both sexist and racist.
I may not know the first thing about running the country, but remember, that’s a good thing if you’re a deep state puppet. I had four years under the tutelage of the ultimate deep state puppet, a wonderful mentor, Joe Biden. Joe taught me rule number one, carefully hide your total incompetence.
I take insignificant things and I discuss them as if they’re significant. And I believe that exploring the significance of the insignificant is in itself significant. Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. “So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time, and there is such great significance to the passage of time.”
And Another trick is trying to sound black. I pretend to celebrate Kwanza, and in my speeches, I always do my best Barack Obama impression. “So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
And okay, look, maybe my work addressing the root causes of the border crisis were catastrophic, but my knowledge of international politics is truly shocking. “The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. It is an alliance that is strong and enduring.”
Just remember, when voting this November, it is important to see what can be unburdened by what has been. And by what has been… I mean, Joe Biden. Do you think the country went to over the past four years? You ain’t seen nothing yet. (Cackle).”
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.
You’d have to be astonishingly stupid to think this was real. Unfortunately …
“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.
Yeah, it really just depends on who you are talking about. I guess the stupid ones make life easier by eating up whatever bad faith arguments the cynical ones put out there.
It’s MAGA, Trump told us that he loved the uneducated right out of the gate
This is, what, how many total times Elon has shared something like this on Twitter where his intention has been (at the very least) dubious?
I find very few reasons to give him the benefit of the doubt here by treating it as some “haha funny meme XD” reaction from him.
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.
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.
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.
Please renew your keys.
I get that the whole asymetric encryption is (as everything security related) only as strong as the people following the best practices, but there is no other way to do it.
Video of Kamala: “I like bad things! HAHA! Bad things are good, aktuly! BAD BAD BAD! Elect me and bad things will happen! I’m just saying it out loud right now!”
American who hates Democrats: “That sounds exactly like Kamala. I’m convinced and I’m not going to vote for here.”
American who likes Democrats: “The AI has hijacked our democratic process.”
meanwhile, the Georgia Sec. State removes 80k registered democrats from its voting rolls
‘The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.’
Einstein
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
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.
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.
I can’t believe a rightwing piece of shit would knowingly spread mis/disinformation. Except that they all do. Lying liars.
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.
Musk is just jealous that his shitty gronk can’t do it.
we knew this was coming. no shock it came from this cum rag
