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Can New York's mayor speak Mandarin? No, but with AI he's making robocalls in different languages
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn’t actually speak. The mayor told reporters about the robocalls on Monday and said they’ve gone out in languages such as Mandarin and Yiddish to promote c…
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Mayor Adams uses AI-generated robocalls to pass himself off to New Yorkers as multilingual
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Can New York's mayor speak Mandarin? No, but with AI he's making robocalls in different languages
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn’t actually speak. The mayor told reporters about the robocalls on Monday and said they’ve gone out in languages such as Mandarin and Yiddish to promote c…
New York Mayor Eric Adams acknowledged to reporters on Monday that with use of an AI language program, he has made robocalls to residents of America's largest city in Spanish, Yiddish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Haitian Creole.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn’t actually speak, posing new ethical questions about the government’s use of the rapidly evolving technology.
