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[–] [email protected] 314 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The push to write in Biden on the ballot didn't go completely smoothly. The weekend before New Hampshire's primary, thousands of voters in the state received robocalls that used deep faked audio of the president in an attempt to dissuade them from turning out.

Whatever your thoughts on electoral politics are, this shit right here is such a terrifying prospect for the future...

[–] [email protected] 110 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No one is taking credit, but we all know which party they're part of. Where is Roger Stone?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not where he should be: prison.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

His head should be adorning a spike atop a parapet somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

His weirdly shaped head

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's an odd way to spell "melting quietly in an oil drum", but sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’d stick him in a drum of “Turpentine, acetone, benzene. [Judge Doom] calls it the dip.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Judge Doom wouldn't put himself, voluntarily, in the dip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Judge Doom is what happens when you bip around in history like a hare-brained child with no regard for multi-universal consequences and the strain it takes on the squishy human psyche. Apparently, the loss of his dearest Clara and their children was enough to make the ol' Doc snap right to his core.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That’s the fucked up part: they’ll be decried as ”lone wolves”, and, as such, no care will be given in investigation nor pursuit. Each and every time. Nor to the aggregate effect of the countless “love wolves” who are never pursued, nor the fascist, terrorist packs they will obviously, inevitably form because they were ignored, alone, fed a diet of Trump and YouTube, and Alex jones, and Xitter…

But that’s the point.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if AI is going to revolutionize anything good, but it's certainly going to revolutionize election interference.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That, misinformation/propaganda, scam calls, etc. Shits gonna get wild real quick here soon, and I don't think we as a species are remotely prepared for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I am fooled by imageai posts about 80% of the time. I don’t know how to not be, but it just makes me distrustful of everything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It already has. But unfortunately the news is not in the business of reporting the news. It is in the business of advertising and engagement. And sensationalist/bad News drives engagement.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

luckily deep fake audio still sounds fake...
however, im pretty sure this is real
https://youtu.be/ZiQRF5h3zDQ?si=4M0sYy8on2GnXFVm

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Even if it didn't sound fake, you'd think common sense would preveil. Why would the president robo call you telling them not to vote for them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My favourite quote attributed to Winston Churchill that he never said is:

The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The average voter went to public school, which is directly manipulated by the entire ruling elite to keep them in power and feed the war machine. Education has very little to do with any of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are private schools less manipulated?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

I'm sorry, are you whatabouting this? Seriously?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

.... You do realize that a significant part of the nation can't even read out a sixth grader level right?

And that doesn't refer to only how well they read words that refers to their critical thinking and their comprehension of what they have read.

These are the target audience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It sounds like they’re talking exclusively from the front of the mouth. I used to talk like that when I was trying to conceal a tongue ring. I wonder why that is?

Linguistics nerd stuff below: American English is spoken from the front of the mouth compared to lots of other languages (not this far forward, but still). I wonder if AI voices speaking Arabic would move Arabic forward by the same amount, all the way to the front, or further back (no human anatomy restrictions on AI voices).

Basically, I wonder if this is a consistent artifact of AI voices or whether AI is just exaggerating unique features of a language.

Edit: I found this, which sounds natural enough that I wouldn’t have thought anything of it (aside from the cuts and the actual things said), had I not been watching out for front of the mouth talk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Goddamn. This is a depressing time.