From The Washington Post
New Hampshire opens criminal probe into AI calls impersonating Biden
By Cat Zakrzewski and Pranshu Verma
New Hampshire’s attorney general Tuesday announced a criminal investigation into a Texas-based company that was allegedly behind thousands of AI-generated calls impersonating President Biden in the run-up to the state’s primary elections.
Attorney General John Formella (R) said in a news conference that his office also had sent the telecom company, Life Corp., a cease-and-desist letter ordering it to immediately stop violating the state’s laws against voter suppression in elections...
“When the stakes are this high, we don’t have hours and weeks,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who studies digital propaganda and misinformation. “The reality is, the damage will have been done...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
