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In a seeming violation of X’s policy, Elon Musk on Friday reposted a video featuring a deepfake of Vice President Kamala Harris. The video is an edited campaign video for Harris that has been digitally altered to replace the voice-over with a voice that sounds like Harris but is not.
In the edited video, Harris calls President Biden senile and says she doesn’t “know the first thing about running the country.” She also calls herself the “ultimate diversity hire” because she is both a woman and a person of color.
The clip has also been edited to replace images of former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, with pictures of Biden.
X’s content policies prohibit sharing “synthetic, manipulated or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.”
Deepfakes like the one posted by Musk and one of Harris that spread on the platform earlier this month, are an ongoing concern in the upcoming presidential election, as is AI.
On Friday, news circulated that Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, was also spreading election misinformation, specifically telling voters that ballots are “locked” in eight states and voters can only vote for former President Trump or President Biden and will not have the option to vote for Vice President Harris. Those reports are false.