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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.”
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
That makes zero sense. Elon Musk is a workaholic. You know, the polar opposite of lazy. He’s a POS but lazy he is not. Rather than campaigning, Trump plays golf. Dude’s as lazy as lazy gets.
A workaholic? He sits around a tweets all day. What work does he do?
Anything to avoid spending time with his kids. But seriously, friends who used to work for him said they’d find him at 7am sleeping under conference room tables.
Used to. And also friends.
I’ve heard he’s a brilliant engineer who really understands car design from people who used to work at Tesla too.
I buy that just as much.
Elon Musk says he is a workaholic
Not having a personality distinct from your work is not the same as being a workaholic.
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 isn’t a right wing shill without telling me he’s a right-wing shill
Watch- he’ll say it was one of his many “hilarious” jokes and his sycophants with circle the wagons and the press will be worried about their Twitter accounts and then this will be forgotten until the next time.
Rules for thee but not for me.
Musk going against his stated principles? Surely not!
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.
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?
The same Elon Musk that was caught on camera licking Trump’s asshole?
