A YouTuber has spoofed the voice and phone number of populist columnist Tucker Carlson to fool Alex Jones, a famous American conspirator.
These “jokes” should multiply. Chris James, YouTuber humorist, usurped the telephone number and the voice of Tucker Carlson, famous American conservative polemicist, to mislead Alex Jones, conspiratorial star. The latter recounts this May 4 having understood the subterfuge when his interlocutor began to make comments “ sexual and obscene “. The conversation would have lasted around a minute.
The tool to reproduce the voice of Tucker Carlson has not been specified, but there are many programs open to everyone, such as ElevenLabs. It only takes a few minutes today for software to capture all the details and subtleties of a voice and start a conversation on the fly just like the person being recorded. The YouTuber also used a spoofing program to surface the phone number of the ultra-conservative TV columnist.
A condemned polemicist
Techniques once reserved for criminal hackers are now accessible to anyone with the slightest motivation. Spoofing is mostly used today to impersonate the voice of bank advisers to extort money, while deep voice fakes have been used by dubious Russian comedians to deceive statesmen.
Tucker Carlson should not file a complaint for the usurpation of his voice, but Alex Jones invites the Youtubeur to explain himself on his channel. This conspiracy star has been ordered to pay almost a billion euros in damages in two separate lawsuits over the lies he told about the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Tucker Carlson also made the news recently after being fired from the TV channel where he worked Fox News. According to the New York Times, his surprise resignation would be linked to a racist SMS.
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