Mayor Adams uses AI to pass himself off to New Yorkers as multilingualBy Craig McCarthy
Published Oct. 16, 2023
Mayor Eric Adams is speaking your language — sort of.
Hizzoner has been passing himself off to New Yorkers as multilingual by using artificial intelligence to appear to speak dozens of languages — from Yiddish to Mandarin — in a series of deepfake robocalls, Adams admitted Monday.
“We have started doing, which I am really excited about, we have started doing robocalls with my voice in many different languages,” Adams boasted from the City Hall Rotunda.
“People stop me in the street all the of the time and say, ‘I didn’t know you speak Mandarin,'” the mayor added.
The confusion may be due to the fact that calls don’t let New Yorkers know that the mayor isn’t actually speaking the language and that his voice is copied through AI and made to artificially speak phrases in a number of languages.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/adams-uses-ai-to-pass-himself-off-to-new-yorkers-as-multilingual/
