Insults, cheap shots and headshots. On TikTok, gaming videos are countless. But for the past few weeks, they have regularly pitted current US President Joe Biden against his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Obviously, everything is just a parody, but this time the voices are reproduced with impressive precision by an artificial intelligence.
As previously reported by Tech&Co, startup ElevenLabs offers to recreate realistic voices using real excerpts. Here is an example done with Donald Trump.
And so here are the two sworn enemies of American politics facing off with big blows of insults in online shooting games.
On TikTok, these fake fights have even become a major trend, racking up hundreds of millions of views. Other figures in American politics, such as Barack Obama, were quickly imitated.
Some netizens have even created sitcoms out of these videos, caricaturing the woman-obsessed Bill Clinton or Joe Biden as a taciturn and irritable gambler.
Risks of false information
If the result tends to sound somewhat contrived, the accuracy of the votes remains impressive and already raises new questions about the future 2024 US presidential campaign.
As Business Insider recounts, the first cases of false information appeared on social networks, imitating the voice of some politicians. Fake audio from a Chicago mayoral candidate was posted on Twitter before it was eventually removed.
After the first criticisms, ElevenLabs had implemented several measures: first by making the option to copy existing voices paid (allowing the company to obtain the person’s bank identity), but also by enabling a tool that will identify the voices of the program.
Source: BFM TV
