Audience members listened to three clips of Biden speaking, two real and one generated by AI audio software capable of mimicking anyone’s voice. Asked to identify the imposter, the crowd was divided fairly evenly among the three clips, meaning about two-thirds of attendees were fooled by the robot president.
The exercise wasn’t just theoretical. In January, just two days before the presidential primary, about 5,000 New Hampshire voters received a robocall purporting to be Biden and urging them to save their vote until November. An investigation revealed that a Democratic political consultant named Steve Kramer had paid a New Orleans magician to produce the call. Kramer claimed he did it
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