The Civic platform has created a setting for casting votes that included Law and Justice politicians, supposedly generated by artificial intelligence using emails that allegedly came from a minister’s mailbox.
Spot PO and eastern special services
At the start, a voice-over intones: They call themselves United Right, but most people know what it really is. What does the prime minister think? Listen for yourself. Then the clip shows short excerpts from Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s Sejm address. An artificial intelligence generated voice follows, closely resembling the head of government. Within these passages, what are presented as emails stolen from government accounts are read aloud in an AI voice.
Journalists warned that some viewers might mistake the AI-generated vote for something real. A few hours after the commercial appeared, a note appeared: Lector generated by AI.
“It’s even more disturbing.”
Wojciech Mucha, presenter of the program Demaskatorzy on TVP Info, points to the danger that recipients could believe those words were spoken by the prime minister himself.
AI-generated votes by politicians were used in a political struggle. For some audiences they will be indistinguishable from genuine content. It is especially troubling that there is no explicit disclosure about the use of artificial intelligence to generate the voices. Someone unaware of this could think such words were spoken by the prime minister.
– said Wojciech Mucha.
The journalist added that the whole email scandal “was initiated by the eastern special services,” a claim he says is already known in the public discourse.
Shed happy
The issue of deploying artificial intelligence both on the site and without clear disclosure about its use was not seen by Borys Budka, who appeared on Gość events on Polsat News.
A very good idea, artificial intelligence feels more real than Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
– commented Budka when asked about the use of an AI-generated voice in the PO spot that resembles the head of government.
Budka was asked who conceived the idea of using Mateusz Morawiecki’s AI-generated voice in the spot.
A very good idea, but frankly artificial intelligence feels more real than Prime Minister Morawiecki
the politician replied.
When asked why the information that the voice was AI-generated was not placed at the start of the spot, he emphasized:
Because it is not necessary, because we show emails.
When asked whether this might mislead viewers into thinking Morawiecki himself was speaking, Budka answered: Prime Minister Morawiecki misleads people every day (…); because such a vote was generated, read along with Dworczyk’s emails.
After one journalist posted that the voice was AI-generated, Budka replied: Well, let’s be clear.
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Source: wPolityce