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.
Indeed, 99% was fabulously wishful of me.
Devious and insidious. Great point.
Yeah like… Maybe 99% (or some high number) would sense that something’s up, but end up with the wrong conclusion. Like how an older family member of mine thought James Cameron’s Avatar had really impressive makeup and costumes and other practical effects… cause he didn’t really understand CGI.
Where he should have landed was something like “My model of how practical effects work can’t adequately explain this,” but instead, his brain made some smaller-but-more-wrong leaps that led him somewhere weird.
I think lots of people are going to experience that same kind of thing with AI-driven propaganda, even when they notice that something is up.