'A bunch of malarkey': New Hampshire AG investigating AI-generated robocalls in Biden's voice

Jan 23, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    42% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

3% Positive

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"It can also create messages that take advantage of social and political discontent, and use AI as a major engagement and persuasion tool."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again, the voice mimicking Biden says."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Generative AI can develop messages aimed at those upset with immigration, the economy, abortion policy, critical race theory, transgender issues or the Ukraine war, West wrote."
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-20% Liberal
"Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again, the voice mimicking Biden says."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again, the voice mimicking Biden says."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Less than 48 hours before polls were set to open for Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, reports began surfacing about robocalls made in the voice of President Joe Biden encouraging residents of the state to skip voting in the nation's first presidential primary of the 2024 election season."
Positive
4% Conservative
"While it's unclear how many of the deepfake calls were made, the Associated Press reviewed a recording of the call and reported it uses a generated voice similar to Biden's and employs his often-used phrase, What a bunch of malarkey."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Formella's office directed recipients of the calls to disregard the content and clarified that the source of the call, which appeared to have come from Kathy Sullivan, a former state Democratic Party chair who helps run Granite for America, a super PAC supporting the Biden write-in campaign, had been spoofed."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Biden does not appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot, and he has not campaigned in the state, but some Democratic groups have advocated for him as a write-in candidate."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"It is outright election interference, and clearly an attempt to harass me and other New Hampshire voters who are plaing to write in Joe Biden on Tuesday."
Negative
-22% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "It can also create messages that take advantage of social and political discontent, and use AI as a major engagement and persuasion tool."
54% : ""Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again," the voice mimicking Biden says.
40% : "Generative AI can develop messages aimed at those upset with immigration, the economy, abortion policy, critical race theory, transgender issues or the Ukraine war," West wrote.

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