The Democratic consultant who admitted to orchestrating the fake Joe Biden robocall has been indicted. Steve Kramer was hit with 26 felony and misdemeanor charges, along with a proposed $6 million fine. Thousands of voters received the AI-generated Biden call before New Hampshire’s January primary election. The Democratic consultant who admitted to masterminding a bogus […]
Steve Kramer, a political consultant who admitted to NBC News that he deepfaked Joe Biden’s voice in a robocall that was sent out to thousands of New Hampshire voters in January 2024, has been indicted. The robocall, which went out ahead of the first Democratic presidential primary in the US, in New Hampshire, used artificial […]
The Republican National Committee sent out a scripted robocall on behalf of its new co-chair Lara Trump, falsely claiming Democrats were guilty of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election. Related: Trump’s RNC takeover triggers strife and staff exits as purge partly backfires “We all know the problems,” the RNC call said, according to CNN, which […]
The League of Women Voters, based on NBC News reporting, is suing the creators of a deepfake robocall impersonating President Joe Biden that urged New Hampshire voters not to participate in the state’s presidential primary in January. The century-old nonpartisan organization filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal district court in Concord on behalf of three […]
A political operative and two companies that facilitated a fake robocall using AI to impersonate Joe Biden should be required to pay thousands of dollars in damages and should be barred from taking similar future actions, a group of New Hampshire voters and a civic action group said in a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday. […]
Steve Kramer, a veteran political consultant working for a rival candidate, acknowledged Sunday that he commissioned the robocall that impersonated President Joe Biden using artificial intelligence, confirming an NBC News report that he was behind the call. Kramer expressed no remorse for creating the deepfake, in which an imitation of the president’s voice discouraged participation […]
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the on the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. Today’s edition features exclusive reporting from senior politics reporter Alex Seitz-Wald on a magician who says a Democratic […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Orleans magician said Friday that a Democratic consultant who worked for Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign hired him to create the audio for what authorities have said may be the first known attempt to use artificial intelligence to interfere with a U.S. election. Paul Carpenter told The Associated Press he […]
A magician in New Orleans says he was the person who used artificial intelligence to create an audio recording of Joe Biden used in an infamous robocall and that he was paid by a consultant for the president’s primary challenger, Dean Phillips. NBC News reported Paul David Carpenter, who holds several world records and also […]
NEW ORLEANS — A Democratic consultant who worked for a rival presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall that is now at the center of a multistate law enforcement investigation, according to text messages, call logs and Venmo transactions the creator shared with […]
WASHINGTON — The fake Joe Biden robocall urging Democrats not to vote in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary has sparked a renewed urgency on Capitol Hill about the threat of artificial intelligence-generated content designed to interfere in elections. But some lawmakers on Tuesday expressed doubt that Congress will be able to pass legislation cracking down on […]
STORY: The White House confirmed that the call was not recorded by Biden Monday (January 22), and said the incident highlights the challenges emerging technologies present. “The president has been clear that there are risks associated with deep fakes. Fake images and misinformation can be exacerbated by emerging technologies,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre […]