In the largest global election year yet, generative AI is already being used to trick and manipulate voters around the world. Will this growing trend have real impact? Today on WIRED Politics Lab, we talk about a new online project that will be tracking the use of AI in elections around the world. Plus, Nilesh Christopher dives into the lucrative industry of deepfakes, and how politicians are using them to bombard Indian voters. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.

A song featuring the voices of Drake and The Weeknd called "Heart on My Sleeve" has amassed over 250,000 Spotify streams and 10 million views on TikTok. But the two renowned musicians had nothing to do with the song -- an artist going by the name "Ghostwriter" generated the song using AI. Drake and The Weeknd have not yet responded to the song, but Drake recently commented on AI-generated music that rips off his voice. When Drake noticed an AI model of himself singing "Munch" by Ice Spice, he wrote on his Instagram story, "This is the final straw AI." It's possible he was messing around, but he would be far from the first major artist to take issue with the rising count of deepfake songs. Ghostwriter and Spotify did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's requests for comment.

French DJ and music producer David Guetta has discovered AI tools, and thought it would be fun to use an unauthorized deepfake of Eminem's voice to rev up a huge crowd at a live show. It looks like it worked, but it raises legal and ethical questions. In a tweet last week, Guetta shows the live performance moment in question, then explains how he did it, presumably using something like ChatGPT to write the lyrics, and then another service like Uberduck or FakeYou to turn the lyrics into a soundbite. "There's something I made as a joke, and it worked so good I could not believe it! I discovered those websites that are about AI. Basically, you can write lyrics in the style of any artist you like. So I typed'write a verse in the style of Eminem about Future Rave,' and I went to another AI website that can recreate the voice. I put the text in that, and I played the record, and people went nuts."

In his 1950's work Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing (1912–1954), who is considered by many the father of Artificial Intelligence, laid out the following question: This question, despite its short length and old origin, still remains a frequent source of discussion, navigating the frontier between technology, philosophy, neuroscience and theology. However, more than half a century ago Turing proposed an indirect way to answer it: Through the famous Turing Test. Turing believed that for us to answer this question without ambiguity, the question itself must be rephrased, specifying or replacing the meaning of'think' and'machines'. Lets first see how we can smooth the'think' out of the equation. Turing proposed to do this by first modifying the question from "Can Machines Think?" to: "Can a machine do what we as thinking entities can do?"

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! In a move that will terrify anyone who makes music for a living, an Artificial Intelligence researcher has used deep fake technology to recreate a perfect copy of Eminem's 1999 smash "My Name Is…". The AI has duplicated the exact tone and intonation of the Missouri-born rapper but updated his seminal rap to take sideswipes at Billie Eilish, former president Donald Trump and instant dating site Tinder. YouTuber, 30 Hertz, who created the track, says he uses AI to generate "synthetic parody songs and other poorly written material" in a disclaimer that echoes scatalogical 90s comedy show South Park. He's not the only AI tinkerer using artificial intelligence to recreate the works of famous musicians. OpenAI's Jukebox project uses the same technology to create entire songs that might have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, had the Rat Pack legend not died in 1998.

In an age when artificial intelligence (AI) is touted to take over many jobs across various industries, songwriting would be the last thing coming to our minds -- after all, the best songs are about the human experience and how could a robot replicate that? However, a study by ticket marketplace TickPick analyzed whether AI could, in fact, replace songwriters and their findings might not please many. For the study, the AI software was trained just for five hours with lyrics across various genres, including pop, country, hip-hop and rock. Later, the AI-generated lyrics were then tested among 1,003 music fans via Amazon Mechanical Turk "with the intent of testing human ability to correctly identify AI-generated lyrics, as well as their opinion on creativity, emotionality and favorability of various lyrics presented to them." Models were trained between five and 12 hours after lyrics were taken from genius.com and grouped by genre.

Another AI-generated video of Trump singing karaoke has made its way to YouTube. If you're a regular reader of Futurism, you may have spotted a previous video in which YouTuber "Coding Elite" used an AI algorithm built by Google engineers to make Trump sing Eminem's "Lose Yourself." Our article about the song received critical acclaim, such as one Facebook comment that read "I want my two minutes back." Now Coding Elite is back, and now the neural net synthesized Trump's voice to make it sound like he's singing Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams." This time around, a video accompanies the song, where video footage of Trump is automatically altered by "Coding Elite" to make it look as though he's actually singing along.

Programmers worldwide are preparing to welcome our new robot overlords, after the University of Reading reported on Sunday that a computer had passed the Turing test for the first time. But what is the test? And why could it spell doom for us all? Coined by computing pioneer Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing test was designed to be a rudimentary way of determining whether or not a computer counts as "intelligent". The test, as Turing designed it, is carried out as a sort of imitation game. On one side of a computer screen sits a human judge, whose job is to chat to some mysterious interlocutors on the other side.