AI Faked 112 Politicians and 948 Britons Called the Robot Real

German researchers pointed GPT-4 Turbo at the Wikipedia biographies of 112 people who went on BBC Question Time, asked it to answer audience questions in their voice, and then let 948 Britons grade the results. Participants rated the AI-generated responses as more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real ones, with the differences statistically significant in every comparison. The machine won because it actually answered the question while the humans dodged, which is a f*ucking indictment of politicians and a loaded gun for anyone who wants to put convincing words in their mouths. The authors call it a dire warning, and the deception potential is the whole point. 404 Media on the impersonation study