The billionaire owner of the social media platform X reposted a video that mimics Vice President Kamala Harris’s voice, without disclosing that it had been altered.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U.S. politics: deepfake videos.
On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over in a deceptive manner.
The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”
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Pro-democracy groups have raised increasingly urgent alarms about deepfakes, a broad term for digital content that employs artificial intelligence and other technology to create audio, video or images that spread false information and could influence voter behavior.
Musk going against his stated principles? Surely not!
Elon Musk openly flouting the rules of the platform he owns to knowingly share misinformation to disparage a woman he doesn’t like…
Tell me Elon is a right wing shill without telling me he’s a right-wing shill
Rules for thee but not for me.
But he’s not even remotely subtle about being a right-wing shill. He’s loud and proud of it.
“…Seeming…”
FUCK the New York Times. They’re so afraid of sounding biased they’re incapable of just reporting the news. This is a CLEAR violation of Twitter rules.
In the tiny amount of time we have to comprehend our impending doom should the sun explode (we will know in 8ish minutes, the force arrives very shortly after that), they would report “SUN APPEARS TO EXPLODE, WHAT COULD THIS MEAN FOR FUTURE ELECTIONS?”
There’s actually legal reasons why publications would pay special care to their word choice like this. The difference between seeming violation and violation comes down to hard proof. Whether we like Elon’s sideshow or not, if there is a defendable claim that his post didn’t violate (e.g. new policy that allows it was approved internally but not yet published publicly), NYT could land themselves in a lawsuit that they have a chance of losing. Then ask yourself how many stories do they publish a day? The risk starts to add up quick.
So the word seeming is doing some heavy lifting there. If you ignore the ass covering, they did still report truth on something important.
This pig needs to lose all his federal funding. Absolutely disgusting.
It seems an awful shame to hobble such a wildly successful company as SpaceX, but I think forcing Elon to sell his stake in the name of National Security would be neat.
Sell?? No. Forcibly nationalize.
Isn’t Trump going to mass deport foreigners like Musk?
(/s)
Sounds like he will do anything to help the orange turd.
Trump promised he won’t open the Epstein files if he gets re-elected. Suddenly Musk started throwing money at him and breaking any rule to censor the opposition party and smear them.
This has little to do with the lying orange Turd. Musk cares about his own pedo past and is desperate to not have that info leak out.
What’s that, Elon? Share deepfakes of you saying that your products are all shit and that you miss Rhodesia?
Did I miss his connection to Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)?
I thought he was from South Africa, which does indeed share a border with Zimbabwe.
We’re talking about deepfakes here. Does it matter?
Well… When complaining about a lack of facts I prefer not to counter with a lack of facts
It has become abundantly clear that the only way to make any of these people care at all about the bullshit firehose is to turn it upon them.
I don’t like it either.
It’s kind of common for white supremacists to lament the fall of Rhodesia. It was a thing among that set for a while.
Another common thing: comparing Biden’s America to Weimar Germany.
The same Elon Musk that was caught on camera licking Trump’s asshole?
Policy says “Blah Blah Blah”*
- Elon Musk is excused from all other policy.
Like laws even apply to rich people in America, let alone rules from a company you own.
Why is there no video in the article? Not even a link to it. Why is the whole internet talking about this video but nobody seems have it?
