Elon Musk Posts AI-Generated Propaganda in Push to Get Trump Elected
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- Jul 29, 2024
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024
Musk’s sharing of the video was clearly just a bid to help elect a fascist, but some Democrats set their sights on the wrong target by overreacting and threatening to ban politically themed AI videos altogether in response to the tweet. California Gov. Gavin Newsom took things the furthest when he said he’d introduce legislation in the coming weeks.
“Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal. I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is,” Newsom tweeted.
Musk shot back in his characteristically embarrassingly way.
“I checked with renowned world authority, Professor Suggon Deeznutz, and he said parody is legal in America,” Musk tweeted back.
As horrible as Musk is, he’s right in this very specific case. Even fans of Musk, some of the dumbest and most credulous people around, couldn’t have thought this video was showing things that Harris actually said. And there needs to be space within a free society for people to make parody videos making fun of elected officials.
That said, there also needs to be guardrails for the use of AI in all kinds of spheres, including political messaging. We can’t allow AI tech to be used to actively stop people from exercising their rights. As one recent example, someone from the Dean Phillips campaign created an AI-generated recording of Biden that was sent out via robocalls in New Hampshire during the primaries. The fake Biden was telling people not to vote because it wasn’t necessary, and that’s obviously something that can’t be allowed.
Musk has spent recent years trying to push candidates from the extreme right into office, even becoming a big Trump supporter after ridiculing him in the past. But Musk isn’t a man of principle beyond his own interests, and he believes Trump can provide tangible financial benefits and the racist policies that Musk wants to see enforced at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Musk shared an incredibly racist tweet Monday that would’ve been shocking in a previous era, but now just acts as background noise on the Nazi-friendly site formerly known as Twitter. And it’s not going to stop, even if Harris wins in November.
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