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A senior Trump advisor shared a video that seems to show an NBC reporter badmouthing Republican presidential candidates. It appears AI was used to imitate the reporter's voice.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It will be interesting what this form of yellow journalism will look like in a few short years...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a feeling it will be quick and nasty. Deep fakes aren't just behind a door, it's a floodgate waiting to be opened.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also works both ways making it even worse. Actually catch someone saying something abhorrent on a hot mic? It was AI, I swear.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if it's an even fight. There's actual video of Trump saying any number of disgusting (or even non-republican things, like that time he proposed to take people's guns without due process), and it's not affecting his support.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah, in the specific case of Trump. Someone much more savvy at not screwing up/not getting caught is bound to use the excuse successfully eventually.

That's what happens when you let the already rich and powerful control the entire system: they get away with anything up to and including "shooting a guy in the middle of Fifth Avenue".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

works both ways

No way. On one side you have a crazed cult of emotionally driven, "poorly educated", violent dolts who refuse the truth while seeking any possible outrage against their non-crazy "enemies".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

They didn't say "both sides". They're saying that a flood of AI bullshit also makes real information harder to trust, which is true.