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

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

@normjess Yes, and they do this with every single group out there. "Gays for Trump," "Blacks for Trump"...

Rather than listen to people who are not corporate oligarchs or Christian fundamentalists, they have always put forward tokens. Now, they don't even need to be real.

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@mattsheffield The Guardians of Pedophiles say we're deranged? When they're the ones using AI slop generators and bots to prop up a fake electorate that generates fake support for their fake reality?!

[liquid@infosec.exchange]

@mattsheffield Social media in all forms should be abolished now that AI exists

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

@mattsheffield

Yeah, and I can find rats in every state, too, but that doesn't mean that all the rats everywhere are going to vote for cheeto. Just saying.

[bongolian@mstdn.social]

@mattsheffield #Republican #AI avatars are most certainly united.

[mattsheffield@mastodon.social]

Here's one of the other Times clips.

This is literally Fox News 2.0. But instead of paid propagandists who don't represent the views of younger women, the goal is to completely replace women.

[joehenzi@social.vivaldi.net]

@mattsheffield It's so badly done!

[dnparadice@mastodon.social]

@mattsheffield I guess I will keep scrolling ...

[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...