“A Democratic consultant who worked for a rival presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall that is now at the center of a multistate law enforcement investigation, according to text messages,” NBC News report
  • sramder@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “A Democratic consultant who worked for a rival presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall that is now at the center of a multistate law enforcement investigation, according to text messages,” NBC News reports.

    Use your links people… I don’t want to search all of NBC for this magical man ;-) And it’s New Orleans, was “computer, voodoo practitioner“ really off the table? 

    “Paul Carpenter says he was hired in January by Steve Kramer — who has worked on ballot access for Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips — to use AI software to make an imitation of Biden’s voice urging New Hampshire Democrats not to vote in the state’s presidential primary.”

    So I now get that Paul Carpenter is the wizard, but the point of these political machinations completely escapes me.