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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What is this 2018? That ship has already sailed.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

'The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.'

Einstein

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Musk is just jealous that his shitty gronk can’t do it.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That is election fraud and Elon should be in jail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How isn't this... disparagement? Or defamation or whatever (I'm not a lawyer).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Oh easy, cuz he's filthy rich.

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