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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] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Non-Twitter Video Mirror

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).”

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Flood twitter with JD Vance couch fucking AI content and see how fast Musk makes them disappear.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish he'd take some more LSD. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll turn into a humanitarian.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's a GOOD thing we give this man BILLIONS of YOUR Taxpayer Dollars!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I can't believe a rightwing piece of shit would knowingly spread mis/disinformation. Except that they all do. Lying liars.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Probably not pgp as it's been thoroughly broken.. but I get what you're saying

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

Pgp is an application. Algorithms get broken, not applications.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

raising concerns about AI in politics

Anyone else more concerned about narcissistic bigoted billionaires in politics? 🙋‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t that guy be trying to save at least one of his companies from the ever increasing explosions of shit and bad management that “somehow” seem to plague them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How could he do that? He is the bad management.

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

Why is there no link to the video? Did he even post that? I'm not even seing it on his Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. It doesn't show up on his profile. And the articles don't have a link to it. That's why I couldn't.

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

Big Brainlon messes up profiles if not logged in. Super whack out-of-order random Tweets.

Login to dumpsterfire, scroll a bit, there’s the amazing witty satire:

(Am assuming there’s no A/B test stuff going on)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I would hope this falls under libel laws and makes Musk culpable for a lawsuit and/or gag order.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Technically, anyone sharing this-who knows it’s fake-should be tried and convicted for election interference and treason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can somebody please just take one for the team and beat the living shit out of this dumbfuck within an inch of his cushy billionaire life so he shuts the hell up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Be the change you want to see in the world

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