As of: January 24, 2024, 11:47 a.m
By: Franziska Schwarz
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Democrats in New Hampshire are also voting today.
The primaries before the 2024 US election are important – and should probably be sabotaged.
Concord – Joe Biden rings and tells you to stay at home: Democrats in New Hampshire are currently receiving such calls.
The voice of the US president advises you not to take part in the New Hampshire primaries.
However, the calls are fake;
the automated voice sounds just confusingly similar to Biden.
Now the fear of manipulation using artificial intelligence (AI) is growing before the 2024 US election.
The broadcaster
CBS News
has a recording of such a call.
According to the report, the AI voice advises people to “save” their vote and wait until November.
“This Tuesday’s vote will only help Republicans re-elect Donald Trump,” the call said.
However, your own vote only “makes a difference” in the presidential election on November 5th.
Donald Trump's campaign team told
CBS News
that it had nothing to do with the fake calls.
Fake Biden calls the US election campaign: “I am disgusted and angry”
The sender information on the calls was also falsified so that they appeared to come from a political committee of Biden's Democratic Party, the New Hampshire attorney general's office said, according to the
dpa
news agency .
“I’m disgusted and angry,” former New Hampshire Democratic leader Kathy Sullivan told the
Washington Post
.
The intent behind the AI calls to “suppress” voting within the Democratic New Hampshire primary is an “unforgivable sin.”
The Biden campaign team told the newspaper that a recording of the fake calls would be forwarded to law enforcement authorities.
New Hampshire Republican and Democratic primaries
According to polls, Trump could triumph in the Republican vote in New Hampshire.
The Democrats are also holding their presidential primaries in New Hampshire this Tuesday (January 23rd).
However, incumbent Biden has practically already been confirmed as the candidate; he has no serious competitors.
AI calls from fake Biden (l.) in the US election campaign: Trump's team distances itself.
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AI fakes in the US election campaign: investigators are facing difficulties
Incidentally, “robocalls” are a common election campaign tool in the USA, reminded the
Washington Post
.
In 2020 there was a “flood of calls and text messages” to eligible voters.
They were asked to “stay at home.”
State and federal investigations followed, but investigators warned at the time that it would be "difficult" to find those responsible.
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US election 2024: Votes are recruited with the help of an “army of bots”?
AI-based software can be trained to say arbitrary sentences using voices of specific people using sound recordings.
Robocalls are an attractive target for such manipulations because they are difficult to monitor, said American political expert Ian Bremmer on the US broadcaster
CNBC
.
He warned that it is also relatively easy online to spread false information to many people with the help of an “army of bots”.
There are also concerns about the possibility of using software to create targeted images - and now also short videos - with any content.
Until now, errors have often been evident in the artificially generated images, but the technology is rapidly improving.
(frs with dpa)