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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.”

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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 143 points 2 years ago

Shocked, SHOCKED I am that the white guy who grew up rich under South African apartheid is a racist who will use racist tactics to defame a black woman he doesn't like.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 37 points 2 years ago

That brings up an interesting if not ironic bit of birtherism: I get the feeling he'd be running for President himself if he was eligible.

[-] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I’ve seen enough Superman stories to recognize a Lex Luthor type when I see one. I could absolutely see him, or Bezos, running for President or Governor someday.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

It's strange that my impulse is to defend Luthor here...

[-] Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

You insult Lex when you compare him to Elon

So it's all over when he executes Flash, then?

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Just a reminder that bezos has 2 shows on prime where superman is the villain.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Maybe, but I'm not so sure it would be a long campaign. At his core, he is extremely lazy. Trump, for all of his faults, is not lazy. Elon would get very tired of going on the campaign trail because it means work. He couldn't just sit around and Tweet himself into the Oval Office.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

I don't think he's racist.

I think it's more about how Trump would make him more money.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

¿Por que no los dos?

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