It is unknown who the call went out to and how many recipients there were. Sullivan’s spokesperson indicated that at least a dozen people reported receiving the misleading call.
The attorney general’s office has encouraged those who received the call to report it to the state Justice Department’s election law unit.
White House Sounds Off
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that the call “was indeed fake and not recorded by the president.” Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, issued a statement condemning the act of spreading disinformation to suppress voting.
The Rise of Generative AI
Experts have been warning about the trend to weaponization generative AI in election campaigns.
As technology advances, AI deepfakes have already surfaced in campaign ads during the 2024 presidential race.
The misuse of such technology to spread misinformation has been observed globally, from Slovakia to Indonesia and Taiwan.
Hany Farid, an expert in digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, confirmed the relatively low-quality AI fake in the call recording.
