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A manipulated video shared by Musk mimics Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics

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.

nul42 ,

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.

xenoclast ,

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

lolcatnip ,

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

msage ,

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.

242 ,

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

Revan343 ,

This is the way

242 ,

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

brbposting , (edited )

Non-Twitter Video Mirror

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/dbfe7d51-dc8e-448f-b568-edf55efa4954.jpeg

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).”

Theharpyeagle ,

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.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

It’s amazing people don’t see him as a racist manchild.

Myxomatosis ,

Elon is a cancer on society.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Conservatives are a cancer on society

sunzu ,

Billionaires?

Chozo ,

A cancer on society.

disguy_ovahea ,

What about cancer?

Nurse_Robot ,

An Elon to the body, and society

Someplaceunknown ,
@Someplaceunknown@fedia.io avatar

A cancer on society

Wiz ,

An Elon on society.

nokturne213 ,

An Elon on society.

Track_Shovel ,

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/21db39d1-8ab8-4712-ba04-f6d01f83cd19.webp

Myxomatosis ,

They deserve to be taxed until they no longer exist.

VelvetStorm ,

Somebody should do something about it. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4882a1d7-faad-48f6-a7a5-6fb6d52ff54f.jpeg

barsquid ,

That is election fraud and Elon should be in jail.

AlecSadler ,

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

kayos ,

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

SirDerpy ,

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

Riccosuave ,
@Riccosuave@lemmy.world avatar

I would have settled for a lethal dose of fentanyl.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Any way to see the video without making an X account and scrolling Musk’s feed? Two things I’d rather not do.

SteveFromMySpace ,

I’m glad it’s not easy because it shouldn’t be disseminated

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Gotta hard disagree with you there, friend… Although I see the merit in that, I think we should be taking examples like this and sharing them around with crystal clear context that:

  • This is a troubling blend of real and fake, and it’s easy to not notice which parts are which
  • This is a new category of propaganda that we aren’t ready for
  • Even though this one is pretty easy to clock as fake satire, it’s not hard to imagine nudging a few degrees away from tongue-in-cheek and toward deliberately deceitful, and holy shit is that going to be scary

Like I know lots of people who don’t know that this sort of thing is even remotely possible, and would have a hard time understanding how to contextualize it, even if they sense something fishy about it. They need to see and hear these deepfake-adjacent materials first hand with context to innoculate against the truly deceptive stuff that they’ll be exposed to.

SteveFromMySpace ,

I really do see your point but like deplatforming my instinct is “out of sight out of mind.”

thanks_shakey_snake ,

I see your point, too! I think to the degree that the story is about Elon showing us who he is, it makes sense to just give the dumpster fire less oxygen to burn… But to the degree that it’s about AI eroding our ability to understand truth, I think we need as much exposure as possible to things like this while we can recognize them.

I think a reasonable person could land in either place in this instance.

brbposting ,

Even though this one is pretty easy to clock as fake satire

By 30s in to the 1m52s video, when she calls Biden a deep state puppet, is where it’ll be obvious to (I hope) 99% of the population. Prob not quite that high though. But yeah. Wanna emphasize it’s not a deepfake of her supposedly spicy stuff…

It’s what an idiot thinks is cunning satire.

It’s dangerous, of course, but don’t want folks to get the wrong message. We might be at an early stage of Musk testing what he can get away with w/r/t political deepfakes - maybe the next one will be dicier. Or maybe not, he can be awful without faking a thing.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

It also feels like there’s something subliminal about it. Like you’re hearing her voice saying she’s a deep state puppet then cut to her actually making a mistake in a speech (but it’s using old school editing techniques there too) and then back to the deepfake voice back to the actual video of her.

Sure when you see it you know which is her and which is the deepfake. But later if you see some of those actual clips again, you might recall seeing it somewhere before and then vaguely recall some of the things the deepfake voice said along with it.

It’s very insidious really. Memories are a weird thing and I don’t know if it’s been studied what kind of effect this sort of thing could have on people. So I don’t know. But it seems plausible that you could create false memories of someone saying something they didn’t say by intercutting things they did say with a deep fake of things they didn’t say.

Stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s a direct link to the tweet, but I’m not sure if you can watch the video without an account anymore: x.com/elonmusk/status/1816974609637417112?s=46&t=…

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Oh, I actually was able to see it without an account-- Thank you for finding/sharing the link!

It’s uh… Pretty much exactly what it sounded like from the article. It’s pretty clear to me that it’s satire and fake, but I’m not sure that it would be to, say, some of my family members.

pastabatman ,

It’s worse than I thought from the article. Outrageously and overtly racist.

Coach ,

raising concerns about AI in politics

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

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Why not both?

homesweethomeMrL ,

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?

lolcatnip ,

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

doodledup ,

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

Stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited )
@Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world avatar

You didn’t look very hard.

doodledup ,

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.

brbposting ,

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:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a45e53e9-1c93-47a4-b411-0175ea02a542.jpeg

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

BigMacHole ,

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

some_guy ,

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

cranakis ,

(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

g0nz0li0 ,

“This former AG, Senator, and VP has no idea how to run this country!” - Conservative Clowns everywhere.

Wiz ,

But the game show host and the hillbilly writer can run the country, Amiright?

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Hey now… he was also the inspiration for most of the villains in the movies we watched as kids.

pastabatman ,

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.

NidoranDuran ,
@NidoranDuran@kbin.run avatar

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.

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