A recorded phone call, sent to New Hampshire voters two days before the January 2024 primary, in which an AI clone of Joe Biden's voice told them to 'save your vote' for November. The state attorney general opened an investigation, the FCC declared AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal within weeks, and the consultant who commissioned it was fined $6 million and acquitted by a state jury in June 2025.
Reported by NBC News on 22 January 2024 after voters forwarded the recording; the voice-cloning company involved suspended the account that made it.
The first AI voice clone deployed against an American election, notable for costing reportedly around $150 to make and for the phrase 'what a bunch of malarkey', which the clone got right.
It was described in some coverage as a Republican operation. The record notes the consultant said he was a Democrat and claimed he did it to draw attention to the danger; the regulator fined him anyway.
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