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A manipulated video shared by Musk mimics Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics (apnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Here’s a direct link to the tweet, but I’m not sure if you can watch the video without an account anymore: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1816974609637417112?s=46&t=EUtgwMByNj4sQbVP9INV-Q

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[+] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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?

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Be the change you want to see in the world

[–] Technotica@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

What is this 2018? That ship has already sailed.

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