Fake AI Biden Robocalls Tell Voters Not to Vote
down on one’s luck: experiencing a bad period in life where things do not go well
In late January, thousands of voters received phone calls from an AI-generated Joe Biden telling them not to vote. This was just days before a New Hampshire state primary election to choose the Democratic Party candidate for president for this year’s upcoming national election in November.
The man behind this fake phone message was Steve Kramer. He is a political strategist who was working for Dean Philips, a Democratic Party rival of Biden. Kramer hired Steve Carpenter to make the AI recording. Kramer described Carpenter as a magician who was down on his luck and said he wanted to help him. He paid Carpenter just $150, and it cost the magician just $1 to create the call, but he didn’t need any magic or high-tech AI skills to do it. He used a cheap and easy to use online AI software to make the AI Biden voice. Kramer is now defending himself, saying his intention was not to affect the election. He claims he only wanted to demonstrate the danger of AI in destabilizing democracy.
The US government has responded by outlawing AI voices in robocalls.
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