{"id":21297,"date":"2025-12-21T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/extremists-are-using-ai-voice-cloning-to-supercharge-propaganda-experts-say-its-helping-them-grow\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:37:20","slug":"extremists-are-using-ai-voice-cloning-to-supercharge-propaganda-experts-say-its-helping-them-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/extremists-are-using-ai-voice-cloning-to-supercharge-propaganda-experts-say-its-helping-them-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda. Experts say it\u2019s helping them grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> boom is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/14\/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned\">upending sections of the music industry<\/a>, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches of major figures in their milieu, and experts say it is helping them grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe adoption of AI-enabled translation by terrorists and extremists marks a significant evolution in digital propaganda strategies,\u201d said Lucas Webber, a senior threat intelligence analyst at Tech Against Terrorism and a research fellow at the Soufan Center. Webber specializes in monitoring the online tools of terrorist groups and extremists around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/21\/ai-voice-cloning-nazis-islamic-state-extremism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ed5fc77bbcac92c1b06a98464d8c84c25e77a2b2\/1_0_2999_2400\/master\/2999.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e605ddb24b8e551a31165468c0b18f44\" title=\"Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda. Experts say it\u2019s helping them grow\" \/>Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology<br \/>\nWhile the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches of major figures in their milieu, and experts say it is helping them grow.<br \/>\n\u201cThe adoption of AI-enabled translation by terrorists and extremists marks a significant evolution in digital propaganda strategies,\u201d said Lucas Webber, a senior threat intelligence analyst at Tech Against Terrorism and a research fellow at the Soufan Center. Webber specializes in monitoring the online tools of terrorist groups and extremists around the world. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology While the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/extremists-are-using-ai-voice-cloning-to-supercharge-propaganda-experts-say-its-helping-them-grow\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda. Experts say it\u2019s helping them grow<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}