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Chris Daughtry Has Had It with AI Fakes: 'This Is Absolute Bullshit' [View all]
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/chris-daughtry-ai-fakes-memes-interview-1235465272/-snip-
For months, social media sites, Facebook in particular, have been deluged with fake AI photos and memes of rock stars supposedly visiting each other in hospitals, embarking on tours that don’t exist, and paying tribute to deceased celebrities onstage. At least one major artist hired a company to scour the internet for such posts and have them taken down.
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Late last week, Chris Daughtry became the latest and most vocal musician to call attention to the fakes. In a video posted on his socials, a clearly anguished Daughtry declared “enough is enough” about “fake bullshit news.” Displaying examples of some of those fake posts — in which he supposedly had a fight with his wife, visited a country legend in the hospital, trashed newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, and announced tours with Bon Jovi and a hip-hop crew — Daughtry urged fans to not repost or respond to any of them. Daughtry tells Rolling Stone why he decided to go very public with this issue.
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But it’s frustrating. You see these ‘’quotes,” so to speak, and headlines that are diametrically opposed to your own values, views, and beliefs. Unfortunately, there are people out here who believe this stuff, and that’s when you feel, “I gotta address this and deal with it.” There are people who read these things and comment, “I will never listen to him again” or “I’m getting rid of all his music!’” We realize that’s a small fraction of people, but unfortunately, we live in a world where false headlines can spread faster than the truth.
Along with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and others, you were also one of several musicians who was depicted supposedly paying “tribute” to Charlie Kirk.
I’ve evolved quite a bit as a human over the last 20 years. I don’t hold the same religious dogma I grew up with. I’m all about equal rights, inclusion, equal rights for LGBTQ, and minority communities. I certainly don’t stand with MAGA, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point or any other movement rooted in bigotry or intolerance or exclusivity. So when it starts lumping me into these groups that do not align with my values and the things I stand for and where my heart is, it affects me on a deep level. I don’t want anyone out there believing that. When it starts to step on or completely contradict things you stand for, that’s when it hurts the most.
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For months, social media sites, Facebook in particular, have been deluged with fake AI photos and memes of rock stars supposedly visiting each other in hospitals, embarking on tours that don’t exist, and paying tribute to deceased celebrities onstage. At least one major artist hired a company to scour the internet for such posts and have them taken down.
-snip-
Late last week, Chris Daughtry became the latest and most vocal musician to call attention to the fakes. In a video posted on his socials, a clearly anguished Daughtry declared “enough is enough” about “fake bullshit news.” Displaying examples of some of those fake posts — in which he supposedly had a fight with his wife, visited a country legend in the hospital, trashed newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, and announced tours with Bon Jovi and a hip-hop crew — Daughtry urged fans to not repost or respond to any of them. Daughtry tells Rolling Stone why he decided to go very public with this issue.
-snip-
But it’s frustrating. You see these ‘’quotes,” so to speak, and headlines that are diametrically opposed to your own values, views, and beliefs. Unfortunately, there are people out here who believe this stuff, and that’s when you feel, “I gotta address this and deal with it.” There are people who read these things and comment, “I will never listen to him again” or “I’m getting rid of all his music!’” We realize that’s a small fraction of people, but unfortunately, we live in a world where false headlines can spread faster than the truth.
Along with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and others, you were also one of several musicians who was depicted supposedly paying “tribute” to Charlie Kirk.
I’ve evolved quite a bit as a human over the last 20 years. I don’t hold the same religious dogma I grew up with. I’m all about equal rights, inclusion, equal rights for LGBTQ, and minority communities. I certainly don’t stand with MAGA, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point or any other movement rooted in bigotry or intolerance or exclusivity. So when it starts lumping me into these groups that do not align with my values and the things I stand for and where my heart is, it affects me on a deep level. I don’t want anyone out there believing that. When it starts to step on or completely contradict things you stand for, that’s when it hurts the most.
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His Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRAg4Z_j1F3/
Don't be gullible. Don't fall for deepfakes.
And don't be so stupid and unethical you believe deepfakes are OK.
A deepfake of Obama was posted here the other day - fortunately hidden fairly quickly - but both the exploitative and completely unethical YouTuber who'd created it, and the possibly gullible DUer who posted it (it wasn't clear whether that DUer had known it was a deepfake before posting it here), thought the deepfake was fine because they liked the sentiments expressed.
People who approve of such deepfakes are giving a thumbs-up to any idiot using AI to treat other people, famous people, as puppets to have them say and do whatever that AI-using twit wants them to do.
Most often this is done for clicks, to get attention and some monetization, which too many platforms encourage.
Sometimes it's done maliciously to create disinformation and hurt the famous person being targeted.
And sometimes it's done by idiots who think their AI videos and AI photos and fake memes and fake quotes are actually helping the person they're attributing fake words and actions to.
They aren't. They're just making the internet less trustworthy, and creating a mess the subjects of that crap will have to waste time and energy cleaning up.
Don't add to that mess by encouraging it and reposting it.
If you are going to respond to that garbage, point out that it's fake.
Not "fake but it's a shame it isn't real." Not "fake but funny." Because comments like that just encourage the egotistical attention-seeking idiots producing that slop and making a mess for others to clean up.
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