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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.

SirDerpy ,

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

BigMacHole ,

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

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.

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.

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 ,
@Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world avatar

You don’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)

radivojevic ,

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

Yurgenst ,

All I see is implied permission to post AI Elon videos all over Twitter.

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