Leftist News Org Urges Biden Campaign to Use AI to Fool Public About Joe’s Senility

By Selwyn Duke

“Fool me once, shame on you,” the saying goes; “fool me twice, it’s AI.”

Okay, that’s not really the saying, but it might be the reality with Joe Biden if his campaign acts on a leftist news organization’s advice:

Use artificial intelligence (AI) to trick the public into thinking Biden is not exhibiting decrepitude and dementia. This strategy would help neutralize the issue of his serious deterioration “while allowing the Biden campaign to effectively disseminate true information,” the counsel goes.

In other words, the end justifies the means.

(Unsaid is that the disseminated information would be largely untrue.)

Cheapfakes and Deepfakes

Of course, what that leftist news outlet, the Huffington Post, is talking about is using AI-altered video to make Biden appear younger, more spry, and lucid. The irony of this is that just last month White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called actual videos of Biden’s behavior “cheap fakes” and even “deepfakes.” And while there is some footage of Biden that has perhaps been presented out of context, it doesn’t constitute deepfake technology. A deepfake is an “image or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said,” Merriam-Webster informs. They are associated with AI.

As for HuffPo’s July 3 call for deception, The Daily Fetched reports:

The piece, titled ‘It’s Time For The Biden Campaign To Embrace AI,’ writes: “After the president’s dismal debate performance, he noted that he ‘might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to.’ AI could help with this.”

“Given the president’s concerning performance last week, it’s time for the Biden campaign to consider leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to effectively reach the voting public,” it continues, as the author, one Kaivan Shroff, declares that “the consequences of not taking this approach could be dire.”

Shroff suggests that “AI augmentations and video renderings could serve to smooth out these bumps while allowing the Biden campaign to effectively disseminate true information.”

Shroff is essentially suggesting that the Biden team lies to the American public by creating fake videos to win his votes.

Isn’t this election interference?

“AI would be a cost-effective and efficient way to communicate his message personally and directly to voters,” Shroff continues.

“How many times have we heard voters and pundits alike gripe that ‘Biden would be the perfect candidate if he were just 10 years younger?’ With modern technology, this exact deliverable [sic] is possible.”

(“Deliverable”? That word is never a noun. Do leftist writers have access to dictionaries?)

A Right to the Truth

Not surprisingly, Shroff has constructed a rationalization to justify his recommended skulduggery. “Reasonably, some may challenge the use of AI as dishonest and deceptive, but the current information ecosystem is arguably no better,” he writes. “It may even be worse. Media outlets like the New York Post have engaged in sharing deceptively cropped viral clips of the president, dubbed ‘cheapfakes,’ to make him appear confused or weak.”

Actually, the current “information ecosystem” is far better. Sure, misinformation and disinformation do abound; note, too, that this is largely, though not completely, a product of the Left. There was the censorship of accurate Covid prescriptions during the “pandemic,” the media’s lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinfo,” and it took seven years for “fact-checker” Snopes to debunk the Trump “fine people” hoax. (Mind you, the latter is a situation where Trump’s words have been presented out of context, repeatedly, for ages.) Yet no honorable person would say that these and other leftist deceptions justify reciprocal and proportionate lying.

Nor does Shroff prescribe this. Rather, his solution to the very human, age-old problem of “bearing false witness” is to jump the shark of shadiness, to leap from the lying pan into the fire. Would we raise kids this way? “We can’t stop them from lying completely — so let’s just teach them how to do it better.”

This could be applied to anything, of course. Since we can’t eliminate all theft, should we just go all in and ensure that our team can steal more effectively?

Promoting Virtue

A prerequisite for having a civilization worthy of the name is that we agree to promote the virtues, one of which is honesty. We owe each other the Truth because, just as how a patient given an incorrect diagnosis won’t know what actions will yield health, a people fed misinformation can’t know what actions will yield national health. (E.g., you won’t secure the border if you believe it isn’t porous.)

AI deepfakes pose a serious threat in this regard, too. In fact, I’ve long said that we should expect AI-enabled deception during the run-up to this year’s election. Remember that this technology could be used to create realistic videos of you, me, or anyone doing anything — stealing, using racial epithets, groping a woman, etc. Just consider the following deepfakes’ realism.

(The next video contains some vulgarity.)

As for the rationalizations, one could imagine digitally enhanced footage designed to make Biden look better being likened to makeup applied to obscure wrinkles or to online, cut-and-paste videos that make a presenter’s message more articulate and smooth (e.g., eliminating “uhs”). But most everyone expects these basic presentation enhancements, just as we know that a Miss America contestant has meticulously done her hair. Using science-fiction-like technology to cover up a president’s dementia, however, is serious deception that can threaten national security.

Americans have a right to know if a White House candidate is senile. Given this, is the Machiavellian obscuring of such a reality not akin to an enemy act?

                  This article was originally published at The New American. 

Comments

[NvEric]

Today's precision in speech is “Five aditinsthghga air degeeens shystems!” - Joe Biden

[Sterny]

Makes sense. Use Artificial Intelligence to get people with Real Stupidity to vote for you.

[Robert Berger]

I have news for you . Joe Biden isn't "senile ". Far from it . He has a speech impediment which is a holdover from a major problem with stuttering he had as a boy but largely overcame with help . If he seems to get tongue-tied once in a while it's because of his speech impediment .
Most of the time he speaks clearly and he always makes sense . Yes, he may have some other physical problems, but I assure you- he is still sane and rational and. sill. able to do perform his duties. unless something happens to him in the future .
But it's Trump who needs to withdraw from the presidential race . He DOES have dementia and it's no secret that he had it.from the beginning of his disastrous sham presidency . His niece. Mary Trump, a. respected psychologist who knows him better than.any other. mental health professional , has been warning us about his progressive dementia . He actually spoke more coherently than he does now when he first became president . But he still babbled foolishly and his babbling has reached the level of. idiocy and total incoherency . There is something very wrong about a presidential candidate who talks about "the late , great Hannibal Lecter " during a speech at oen of his rallies . Lecter can't be "late" or "great " because he's a fictional character . This is not an isolated incident .
Trump is now a totally dysfunctional. shell of a human being .What little mind and intellect he had to begin with has been destroyed by dementia or possibly Alzheimer's . This. man is. now certifiably insane . A. horrifying combination of insanity, dementia and his innate. stupidity means he is. totally incapable of. fulfilling being president . Why aren't any of the Republicans in congress calling for him to withdraw ? The reason is because they are gutless, spineless cowards who are too frightened to stand up to the dear leader .
Whatever his physical problems , Biden is still sane and rational, has sound judgment , is level-headed and. has the brains , skills and experience needed to be our president . Bur Trump is still protected by the Republicans in congress and his MAGA maggots . At this point, America would be better off with a chimpanzee as president than Trump. If he is reelected this November, he will be a ticking time bomb waiting to go off !

[rayrayray]

Deepfakes are becoming so realistic one day we might even get fooled into believing that Incelwyn got laid.

[Selwyn Duke]

Dear Ray,

Thank you for responding (I guess). It had been a while since I'd heard from you. As to your input, you certainly are consistent: No one can accuse you of originality or creativity, but you certainly do stay on message.

God bless,

Selwyn Duke

[rayrayray]

Dear Incelwyn,
I will change my message when you change yours. But I'm not holding my breath. You were a racist incel POS 5 years ago, and 10 years ago, and still are one today... If you ever STOP being a racist incel POS I will respond accordingly. I guess weirder things have happened, so for the sake of the human race I hope you one day will recover, but, let's be realistic here: you're too old and too dumb to ever change. So I will keep popping by and making fun of your pathetic rear end from time to time, Incelwyn.
Latah,

Ray