Elon Musk Posts AI-Generated Propaganda in Push to Get Trump Elected

Elon Musk shared an AI-generated video of presumptive Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris saying ridiculous things that went viral implicit the weekend. The video led to a treatment astir what relation fake images play successful persuading imaginable voters. While it’s improbable galore radical thought this caller video of Harris was real, it’s conscionable the latest illustration of Musk trying to enactment his thumb connected the standard to elite Donald Trump.

Trump supporters person been connected the antiaircraft ever since Biden stepped speech and endorsed Harris, who’s presently surging successful the polls amid a question of alleviation passim the country. Trump seemed unstoppable for months, but the vibe has shifted considerably, with regular radical simply pointing retired the innate weirdness of guys similar vice statesmanlike nominee JD Vance. Republicans are perfectly terrified, to enactment it mildly.

But present Musk and his chap weirdos are hitting back, doing everything they tin to overgarment Harris arsenic atrocious oregon unreasonable, including with the AI video the billionaire shared connected Friday with the caption “This is amazing.”

The video starts with the fake Harris mispronouncing her ain name, a communal mistake that usually would awesome with AI though that whitethorn not ever beryllium a beardown awesome to Trump supporters that it’s not real. Trump himself regularly mispronounces her sanction and precocious admitted astatine a rally that helium knows the close pronunciation but doesn’t usage it.

From there, the video is conscionable a litany of racist claims and absurd misinformation.

“I was selected due to the fact that I americium the eventual diverseness hire. I’m some a pistillate and a idiosyncratic of colour So if you knock thing I accidental you’re some sexist and racist,” the fake Harris says successful the video.

Musk, who has a past of highly racist comments, evidently knows a happening oregon 2 astir racism.

This is astonishing 😂
pic.twitter.com/KpnBKGUUwn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024

Musk’s sharing of the video was intelligibly conscionable a bid to assistance elite a fascist, but immoderate Democrats acceptable their sights connected the incorrect people by overreacting and threatening to prohibition politically themed AI videos altogether successful effect to the tweet. California Gov. Gavin Newsom took things the furthest erstwhile helium said he’d present authorities successful the coming weeks.

“Manipulating a dependable successful an ‘ad’ similar this 1 should beryllium illegal. I’ll beryllium signing a measure successful a substance of weeks to marque definite it is,” Newsom tweeted.

Musk changeable backmost successful his characteristically embarrassingly way.

“I checked with renowned satellite authority, Professor Suggon Deeznutz, and helium said parody is ineligible successful America,” Musk tweeted back.

As horrible arsenic Musk is, he’s close successful this precise circumstantial case. Even fans of Musk, immoderate of the dumbest and astir credulous radical around, couldn’t person thought this video was showing things that Harris really said. And determination needs to beryllium abstraction wrong a escaped nine for radical to marque parody videos making amusive of elected officials.

That said, determination besides needs to beryllium guardrails for the usage of AI successful each kinds of spheres, including governmental messaging. We can’t let AI tech to beryllium utilized to actively halt radical from exercising their rights. As 1 caller example, idiosyncratic from the Dean Phillips run created an AI-generated signaling of Biden that was sent retired via robocalls successful New Hampshire during the primaries. The fake Biden was telling radical not to ballot due to the fact that it wasn’t necessary, and that’s evidently thing that can’t beryllium allowed.

Musk has spent caller years trying to propulsion candidates from the utmost close into office, adjacent becoming a large Trump protagonist aft ridiculing him successful the past. But Musk isn’t a antheral of rule beyond his ain interests, and helium believes Trump tin supply tangible fiscal benefits and the racist policies that Musk wants to spot enforced astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.

Musk shared an incredibly racist tweet Monday that would’ve been shocking successful a erstwhile era, but present conscionable acts arsenic inheritance sound connected the Nazi-friendly tract formerly known arsenic Twitter. And it’s not going to stop, adjacent if Harris wins successful November.

The Biden-Harris Administration is importing immense numbers of voters https://t.co/p0OQM0RWpt

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024

Neither Musk nor the Harris run instantly responded to a petition for remark Monday. Gizmodo volition update this station if we perceive back.