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Biden deepfake voice calls
to deter voters from participating in the presidential primary
NBC reports that NH voters are getting robocalls with a deepfake of Biden’s voice telling them to not vote tomorrow.
“it’s important that you save your vote for the November election.”
nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp)
2:02 PM • Jan 22, 2024
These calls are illegal, and people are going to go to prison for this. But this is only the start of the nefarious activities that are no doubt going to happen this year. Deepfakes are only going to get cheaper, better and easier to use.
What is clear now though is that, “Blame AI“ is now an emerging theme, and similar to the social media panic of the teens (No Facebook did not sell your data!). We are going to have to go through another cycle of the political establishment collaborating with the reflexive Luddism of the public to demonize what is really a transformative and positive technology.
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