--- title: "Trump Shares AI Voice-Cloned Fake Video of Anderson Cooper" description: "Former President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be shying away from AI-generated content during the 2024 election cycle." date: "2023-05-16" modified: "2023-05-18" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/trump-ai-voice-cloned-fake-video-anderson-cooper" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" --- # Trump Shares AI Voice-Cloned Fake Video of Anderson Cooper ![Former President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be shying away from AI-generated content during the 2024 election cycle.]() *NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 11: Anderson Cooper attends the 16th annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at American Museum of Natural History on December 11, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Randy Brooke/Getty Images) \Image: Getty Images/Randy Brooke\* ## Cooper 180 Former President Donald Trump is [once again]() making it [quite clear]() that in the run-up to the 2024 election, he won't be shying away from synthetic content. In the wake of his controversial *CNN* town hall appearance last Wednesday night, Trump [took to his social media platform]() Truth Social on Friday morning to share yet another piece of AI-generated material: a foul-mouthed, voice-cloned video featuring longtime *CNN* anchor Anderson Cooper explaining that Trump, in no uncertain terms, had succeeded in his town hall appearance. "That was President Donald J. Trump ripping us a new asshole here on *CNN's* live presidential town hall," said the fake Cooper. "Thank you for watching, have a good night." Of course, the bespectacled Cooper absolutely never said that. But while the video in question isn't exactly convincing — the AI-generated audio in the Trump-posted clip doesn't match Cooper's mouth — it's yet another reminder that AI may well play a big role in the upcoming election cycle, and jury's still out on whether we're ready to deal with that or not. "We're not prepared for this," AJ Nash, vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox, [told the *Associated Press*](). "To me, the big leap forward is the audio and video capabilities that have emerged." "When you can do that on a large scale, and distribute it on social platforms," he added, "well, it's going to have a major impact." ## Wild Times Ahead As other experts noted to *PBS,* the risks that generative AI systems like voice clones and other deepfake technologies pose to the 2024 election cycle go beyond what any candidate or campaign might be posting online themselves. There are a number of ways that bad actors, in the US and abroad, might use the tech to potentially influence campaign outcomes, and we should all probably be wary. "What if Elon Musk personally calls you and tells you to vote for a certain candidate?" Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, told *PBS*. "A lot of people would listen. But it's not him." "What happens if an international entity — a cybercriminal or a nation-state — impersonates someone. What is the impact? Do we have any recourse?" asked Petko Stoyanov, global chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm Forcepoint. "We're going to see a lot more misinformation from international sources." In any case, it certainly matters that a former US president, who's currently the leading Republican candidate for 2024, is ever-so-willing to share faked content. We're in for a wild ride. **More on AI and reality:** [*Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()