‘This Should be Illegal’: Senate GOP Uses AI Deepfake to Attack Talarico

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-talarico-deepfake

29 Comments

  1. Firm_Argument9124 on

    So can someone make the one Trump just did where he said higher gas prices is good for America? And then follow with every Republican supporting Trump? 

    Why do Republicans want higher gas prices?

  2. wewantedthefunk on

    I hate AI. It is a cancer – eats our natural resources, destroys the environment and jobs of all kinds, and worst of all, it’s becoming more and more difficult to discern from reality. It should have been top of mind for everyone on earth that it can be (and is) used to spread disinformation, public mistrust and cause chaos. Not to mention being used for much more nefarious purposes than conning your aunt or divorced uncle.

    Even if it doesn’t convince you, some mouthbreathing twat believes it when they see this shit and will spread it and repeat it ad nauseum no matter what you say about reality. The growth of the internet gave incredibly stupid people a bullhorn and AI makes it so they can create their own reality to win arguments on the same internet. Or the GOP fuckwhistles using it to manipulate voters more than ever.

  3. These people are scared shitless of Talerico. I have never seen such hateful and existential vitriol directed at a candidate on social media before. And guess what! It’s not working. Comment sections are dominated by people defending James from these rancorous attacks. It’s the most encouraging thing I’ve seen culturally in a long time. So everything you can in every corner to support this man, he is at the forefront of a movement.

  4. Claude: Replace all instances of James Talarico with Donald Trump in the attached file.

  5. HumdrumHoeDown on

    Love how technology always creates new lows for the worst intentioned people.

  6. Ok-disaster2022 on

    So they use deefske AI to depict him reading his tweets. Meanwhile those tweets make me respect him more. 

    And yes God is Non-binary because God is singular. He made humanity in His likeness and goes by male pronouns in text because He wanted to or it was a masculine society. Either or explanation works. You can find plenty of texts going back centuries confirming God is neither male nor female. 

  7. Federal_Drummer7105 on

    I’m trying to remember, but recently there was an election where the Republican had **an actual fucking debate with a Deepfake AI representing his opponent**.

    Cause – idk they have to debate literal strawman opponents instead of real ones I guess.

  8. Remember when Andrew Cuomo did this and created an AI of Mamdani shoving rice into his mouth with his hands before releasing pimps and wife beaters from jail? Yea.

  9. NeonPrankster on

    The NRSC and Greg Abbott have relentlessly attacked Talarico for his past tweets (all of which are literally just him being anti-racist). Abbott is a Governor, and should be focused on Gina Hinojosa, not Talarico.

    I think it’s pretty clear that they’re scared shitless of him. He wraps a progressive agenda in Christian values, and the GOP know that it exposes right-wing extremism.

  10. Go nuclear on them and spam AI stuff with trump and epstein

    Republicans wont do anything until we fight dirty. See how they are crying foul now with gerrymandering after they tried with Texas.

  11. Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er on

    One of the reasons Trump avoids regulating AI. They see it as a political weapon.

  12. In texas, it’s illegal to use deepfakes for political purposes within 30 days of an election.

    [https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB00751S.htm](https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/SB00751S.htm)

    (the formatting sucks; I just copied and pasted from the link)

    |S.B. No. 751|
    |:-|
    |(In the Senate – Filed February 11, 2019; March 1, 2019,|
    |read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;|
    |April 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,|
    |Nays 0; April 8, 2019, sent to printer.)|
    |[Click here to see the committee vote](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/pdf/SB00751S.pdf)|

    | |
    |:-|
    |A BILL TO BE ENTITLED|
    |AN ACT|
    | |
    |relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a|
    |deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an|
    |election.|
    |BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:|
    |SECTION 1.  Section 255.004, Election Code, is amended by|
    |adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:|
    |(d)  A person commits an offense if the person, with intent|
    |to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election:|
    |(1)  creates a deep fake video; and|
    |(2)  causes the deep fake video to be published or|
    |distributed within 30 days of an election.|
    |(e)  In this section, “deep fake video” means a video created|
    |with artificial intelligence that, with the intent to deceive,|
    |appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not|
    |occur in reality.|
    |SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.|

  13. Ok_Character_5532 on

    Their propaganda is doing a piss poor job, because this actually makes me like him more. I only see this helping his chances with dissatisfied Crockett backers

  14. MarcheMuldDerevi on

    Republicans Jesus and biblically accurate Jesus are very different people. Also this will only change when we get solid deep fakes of senate leadership taking male prostitute dick up the ass

  15. Hillbilly_Boozer on

    Seems like a defamination suit is in order.

    Also, wonder if this could be applied. 

    [Texas Penal Code – PENAL § 33.07. Online Impersonation](https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-33-07/

    (a) A person commits an offense if the person, without obtaining the other person’s consent and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten any person, uses the name or persona of another person to:

    (1) create a web page on a commercial social networking site or other Internet website; or

    (2) post or send one or more messages on or through a commercial social networking site or other Internet website, other than on or through an electronic mail program or message board program.

    (b) A person commits an offense if the person sends an electronic mail, instant message, text message, or similar communication that references a name, domain address, phone number, or other item of identifying information belonging to any person:

    (1) without obtaining the other person’s consent;

    (2) with the intent to cause a recipient of the communication to reasonably believe that the other person authorized or transmitted the communication; and

    (3) with the intent to harm or defraud any person

  16. LasBarricadas on

    I wonder if someone used AI to have Trump read the FBI document that alleges he raped a 13 year old. That would be interesting.

  17. Bro needs to litigate this shit to the moon and inadvertently create a landmark case on deepfakes while he’s at it. Would solidify everyone’s vote in doing so, i’d be willing to bet.

  18. Wasn’t there a bill proposed to address political deepfakes and Elon musk freaked out?