A group called Republican Accountability has released a doctored video in which they use Artificial Intelligence to create a facsimile of Fox News host Tucker Carlson‘s voice.
The one-minute video features Carlson’s A.I.-enabled doppelganger reading statements that were attributed to him in materials — emails, etc. — made public during legal discovery for the Dominion lawsuit against Fox.
The result is a dramatic rendering of the alleged Carlson commentary, with the A.I. voice effect bringing into starker relief the gap between Carlson’s private beliefs and sentiments and the more rigid positions broadcast on air by his public TV persona.
The video also uses A.I. to imitate the voices of other Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
Fox News settled with Dominion so their viewers wouldn’t learn about this. pic.twitter.com/qQyCMT3RAn
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) April 18, 2023
The Republican Accountability group, an anti-Trump, anti-MAGA operation with political DNA similar to that of the Lincoln Project, describes itself this way: “We are Republicans & conservatives defending pro-democracy R’s, holding accountable those who tried to overturn the election, & fighting against disinformation.”
[Note: It is perhaps indicative of our age that a group fighting disinformation would use technology enhancements like A.I. to create doctored voices for a video.]
The Republican Accountability group is clear up front with its intent and its technique, declaring (in Carlson’s fake voice) as the video starts:
“What you’re hearing is an AI rendering of Tucker Carlson’s voice. The voices in this video are AI renderings of statements made by Fox News hosts, as released through the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit.”
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