It’s So Easy To Make AI Politicians, We Made Biden Legalize Weed

With 10 months until Election Day, artificial intelligence is poised to change the nature of American politics — and the tech is so easy to use, even a reporter can do it.

A recent robocall to New Hampshire residents featured a fake Joe Biden voice urging Democrats to skip Tuesday’s primary. He didn’t really say that , and the New Hampshire attorney general’s office launched an investigation into the call, with a spokesperson saying it appeared to be an unlawful attempt to disrupt the primary and “suppress New Hampshire voters.”

Artificial intelligence has advanced quickly in recent years, raising fears of efficient, widespread misinformation campaigns, to the detriment of voters and news consumers .

The uses for the technology in politics are seemingly endless , from astroturfed comment sections and legislative correspondence to entirely AI-generated podcasts, which the firm NewsGuard found plagiarized from real news websites. In the future, fake information like the Biden robocall could be produced on a mass scale — and, crucially, employed in local elections or in languages other than English, making the truth even more difficult to ferret out. Imagine receiving a call that your local polling place is closed because of a busted water line.

So HuffPost tried our hand at the deceptive practice.

It only took a few minutes, and the results are strikingly realistic.

Here, for example, is a fake “Joe Biden” announcing that cannabis is now legal nationwide:

And here’s our AI-powered “Donald Trump” reciting Julia Stiles’ character Kat Stratford’s iconic poem from “10 Things I Hate About You”:

The spoofs were created with Parrot AI, a popular app that offers users the opportunity to put words in the mouths of dozens of