Thank you for being a free subscriber.. Don’t lose access to Lincoln Square. If you upgrade right now, you can lock in 20% off your annual subscription to one of the fastest-growing pro-democracy communities on Substack! Your subscription upgrade helps us inform disengaged voters with the facts to mobilize them into action! We live in an age of miracles and wonders. And some of those miracles and wonders are guaranteed to slam you deep, deep into the uncanny valley. In the last few days, your YouTube feed might have mentioned a channel called “Liberal America,” which has been slamming out videos of … well, me. Every few hours, another video pops up of me taking on the current issues of the day, very much using my voice, my image, although with smoother skin and perfect teeth. (Yes, Mom, I should have worn my retainer.) It’s … creepy. The technology has allowed some rando to use voice replicating tech like ElevenLabs to copy my sound and style. It’s taken AI video generation tools like Sora to create a lifelike enough version of me that has already fooled over a million people. They then use ChatGPT to generate answers to prompts that sound like my words. I suppose I’ve made it easy: thousands of television, radio, print, and podcast interviews. Hundreds of my own podcasts. Thousands of articles. As they say in AI, I’ve produced a “rich corpus of training materials.” We’ve asked Google to take the site down via its automated tools. You can imagine how well that’s going … which is to say, not at all. I post genuine, all-me, no-AI commentary videos only in four places: Lincoln Square’s YouTube, the Lincoln Project, my Against All Enemies YouTube Page, and on my Substack. Accept no substitutes. I’m a guest on other folks’ platforms all the time, so after that, you take your chances. It’s a weird, brave new world, and I hope we can get these fakes taken down, but until then, I appreciate you all very much. You’re currently a free subscriber to Lincoln Square Media. For full access to our content, our Lincoln Loyal community, and to help us amplify the facts about the assault on our rights and freedoms, please consider upgrading your subscription today with this limited-time offer. Lock in this special rate today. Not ready to subscribe? Make a one-time donation of $10 or more to support our work amplifying the facts on social media, targeted to voters in red states and districts that we can help flip. Every $10 reaches 1000 Americans. The Truth needs a voice. Your donation will help us amplify it. Want to help amplify this post? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think. |