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The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode. (gizmodo.com)
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Over the last month, some Spanish-speaking New Yorkers got a recorded phone call from Mayor Eric Adams speaking their native language. “Hola, soy el alcalde Eric Adams,” the mayor says in a monotone but flawless accent, before launching into a pitch for jobs with the city government. The truth is Adams isn’t multilingual, but he is a pioneer in the AI politics race.

In October, the mayor’s office said he’s been using AI to blast his constituents with millions of robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak, including Yiddish, Spanish, Mandarin, Haitian Creole, and Cantonese.

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[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now it's not as bad, but soon we wont be able to tell whether robocalls are humans or not.

I guess we can resort to having the one on the other line say stuff they shouldn't be able to as an AI (I.E the classic "say penis x3 if you are human")

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I think I’d be able to tell it was fake if Ted Cruz rang to call me by name and give me a message in Swahili, no matter how convincing his tone may be.