Infowars host Alex Jones calls for Canadian comedian to be arrested after AI prank call
Posted May 7, 2023 2:46 pm.
Last Updated May 10, 2023 9:58 am.
A Canadian comedian who goes by the name Prank Stallone says he was shocked when the disgraced host of Infowars, Alex Jones, answered his prank phone call.
Stallone says he was using an AI program to mimic the voice of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and used a program to spoof Carlson’s phone number.
“I was ill-prepared for him to actually believe it,” Stallone said. “I say some really absurd stuff on there that’s so outlandish and obviously not real. In the end, he alludes to AI and hangs up the call. I was pretty surprised.”
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After the call ended, Stallone says he reached out to Jones to let him know it was just a prank. Stallone says Jones then invited him to come on the show to talk about the dangers of AI.
But when Stallone refused, he says Jones became “angry” and “aggressive.”
“I spoke to him during a break on his show. He was asking me to come on, then he started getting very mad at me when I told him it didn’t benefit me and I had no interest in doing that.”
Jones then went on air and accused Stallone of being a “stalker” who was harassing him. He also called for Stallone to be arrested.
“Let me tell the little prankster Prank Stallone something: Tucker Carlson’s lawyers are involved and what you did, we believe, is a crime. And even though you think you’re safe up in Canada, you’re going to get arrested for what you did,” Jones said.
Jones continued his monologue for about 15 minutes, lamenting the dangers of AI and accusing Stallone of making “sexual threats.”
Since then, Stallone says he has faced death threats from Infowars viewers.
“It hasn’t been too bad, to be honest,” Stallone said. “I posted one of them where someone said, ‘I want to eat your flesh, I want to eat you.’ I don’t hear that too often. I do pranks on far-right people and media people, so I’ve definitely had people threaten me before.”
Jones is best known for his Infowars program where he promotes far-right conspiracy theories, including the debunked theory that the Sandy Hook school shooting was fake. In 2022, a U.S. court found Jones liable for $49.3 million in damages for consistently promoting that misinformation on his show. He was later ordered to pay millions more to the families of some of the victims, bringing total damages to nearly $1.5 billion.
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Stallone denies being a stalker or harassing Jones, but he says people like Jones should be made to feel uncomfortable.
“People who deny Sandy Hook, people who are harassing the family members of that — I think — are the lowest form of individual who walks around with us every day. I am disgusted by those kinds of people. So, to make someone like that angry and uncomfortable is only a good thing.”
As for the AI component, Stallone says despite his use of the technology in his pranks, he doesn’t think the technology should be available for people to use.
“I’m not the kind of smart guy that should be discussing the dangers of AI, but I do think it could be used for really bad things. What I did in this instance is a fairly harmless prank call…but just seeing what you’re able to do, it worries me as a person.”
Stallone says he plans to release the video on his YouTube channel Monday morning, and says he’s looking forward to putting the whole ordeal behind him.
Stallone spoke with CityNews on condition of not revealing his name due to the threats he has been receiving.
