{"id":45241,"date":"2024-05-27T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=45241"},"modified":"2024-05-27T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:02:55","slug":"deepfake-leads-to-6-million-dollar-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/deepfake-leads-to-6-million-dollar-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepfake leads to 6 million dollar fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Kramer, a 54-year-old political consultant from New Orleans, has been indicted on multiple felony charges for orchestrating a deepfake robocall campaign aimed at suppressing voter turnout during the New Hampshire Democratic primary. The call, which impersonated President Joe Biden using AI-generated voice cloning technology, was part of an effort to influence the primary in favor of another candidate. Kramer, who admitted to scripting and funding the robocall, faces a potential $6 million fine from the FCC for these deceptive practices.<\/p>\n<p>This unprecedented case highlights the evolving challenges and legal implications of using artificial intelligence in political campaigns. The FCC&#8217;s proposed fine underscores the seriousness with which election interference and digital impersonation are treated, signaling a new frontier in the enforcement of election integrity and technological misuse. This incident serves as a critical reminder of the need for stringent regulations and vigilance to protect the democratic process from novel forms of manipulation and deceit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Kramer, a 54-year-old political consultant from New Orleans, has been indicted on multiple felony charges for orchestrating a deepfake robocall campaign aimed at suppressing voter turnout during the New Hampshire Democratic primary. The call, which impersonated President Joe Biden using AI-generated voice cloning technology, was part of an effort to influence the primary in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1350,355,9,215],"tags":[1365,275],"class_list":["post-45241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-legal","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-todays-news","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45243,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45241\/revisions\/45243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}