Republicans are flooding social media with AI generated videos featuring fictitious people all saying verbatim talking points.

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

Flashback to Sinclair Broadcast Group doing this with real people across its multi-billion-dollar network of TV stations. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/02/sinclair-trump-video-script-fake-news-president-defends-tv-news-twitter

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@mattsheffield I remember Sinclair doing this - making all the anchors read from the same script. I was astonished at the time.

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

@keira_reckons The videos are completely made up. The uniform details are all wrong. You also cannot make political statements in uniform or record on base in most cases.

[jmcrookston@mastodon.social]

@mattsheffield oh

Wow. Yet, I'm not surprised.

Anything that Republicans say other people are doing, they are doing. It's all projection.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@mattsheffield Interesting how all of these women look like amalgamations of the same three women, and also how unnatural the stance, inflection in the speech, quality of the audio and background details are.

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

These videos are the fuller developed version of the fake Instagram Trump fan "Jessica Foster" which was used to support him and also sell foot fetish content https://www.fastcompany.com/91507096/jessica-foster-popular-maga-influencer-ai-model

[optimisticmoron@mastodon.xyz]

@mattsheffield
Nah, Americans wouldn’t be stupid enough to follow an empty suite (or a tank top) spewing idiotic ideas.
Or would they …

[fiddlesix@zeroes.ca]

@mattsheffield

Most nights, our local Sinclair station pauses to show a live look at the White House. It's weird.

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@mattsheffield

I mean..... have they stopped this practice? I hadn't heard that they did.

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

@RVLara23 Sinclair doesn't do this exact thing anymore, but they do force stations to run corporate propaganda.

[theogrin@chaosfem.tw]

@mattsheffield @keira_reckons

I wonder what the penalty would be for impersonation of a military official through the use of LLM deepfakes. It is, after all, a crime to falsely represent oneself as a military official, and it's not hard to imagine that the same might apply in this circumstance.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@MissGayle @mattsheffield I was wondering about this myself... It's a far cry to claim being united (what does that even mean in this context? No one on the left ever said "the right is not united" because what does it even mean???) to just getting people in each state to comment. Just getting comments on platforms like those just means your account has follows... (Many of which may even be bots.)

It doesn't just end at being fake. Every part of this is a hot mess...

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@normjess @mattsheffield Honestly I'd argue they're just trying to pretend *women* support the right, not *educated* women. They really really don't like educated women and push pretty hard for a belief that women should be, and I quote "traditional" — that this is good and that being "non-traditional" in some way is bad. Having an education is definitely not "traditional" in their definition.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@disorderlyf @mattsheffield I think it's a product of the training with the videos of women in the sources more being posing/etc rather than actually, you know, doing stuff.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@theogrin @mattsheffield @keira_reckons Oooh, you have a really good point there... I wonder if some legal organization could get involved or something?

[eschaton@mastodon.social]

@oldclumsy_nowmad @mattsheffield This is not a recent phenomenon. The Republicans have been the party of big business and the wealthiest for over a century now, essentially since the premature end of Reconstruction.

[cyberwitch@goingdark.social]

@mattsheffield this is more uncanny than the viral sorority pile of limbs chant that was making the rounds several years ago. But the vibes are very on-par