An AI-generated rapper called Danny Bones with links to far-right Reform splinter party Advance UK repeatedly intervened in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Harriet Williamson and Simon Childs report.

Bones is an AI creation created by a shadowy agency linked to a far-right political party backed by the world’s richest man. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered links between the operation behind the persona and Ben Habib’s party Advance UK. Experts believe this is the first time an AI character has been linked to a political party, and say Bones is a concerning sign of things to come.

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Since this is an AI-generated creation, hypothetically speaking, couldn’t someone take this character and generate more AI clips of him? Say speaking fluent Russian or Chinese, praying to Satan, or having sex with barn animals? Crying as he gets a vaccine shot. Maybe show his non-singing voice as a posh, high falsetto. Pretty much anything they want?

    And if someone did, wouldn’t they be in the clear, since AI can’t be copyrighted? I’m asking as someone interested in social aspects of this tech.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      Say speaking fluent Russian or Chinese, praying to Satan, or having sex with barn animals?

      Getting makeup tips from VP Maybelline, while doing an over-the-top Little Richard imitation and singing “Ya done started out doin’ those things you used to do.”

      Maybe show his non-singing voice as a posh, high falsetto.

      I’m thinking more Kenneth Williams than Tiny Tim. Full-on Julian and Sandy Polari-slinging camp.