The ad shows Maine Gov. Janet Mills giving little kids syringes with hormones. They couldn’t use real video because that never happened.
Republicans are attacking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) – who is running for the U.S. Senate – with a fake artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video of her giving a boy “a no-parent-permission-required estrogen kit.”
Mills has been a strong supporter of transgender rights this past year, refusing to bow to pressure from the president to ban trans kids from participating in school sports.
But instead of just criticizing her for her actual record of support for trans people, Republicans have decided to use deepfake videos.
If only politicians actually were this based.
Mills is kind of a shit candidate (will be 80 years old if sworn in) and I’m seeing a pattern of Republicans attacking the worse candidate in a Democratic primary to make them more visible against their primary opponent. Another example, Jasmine Crockett against the clearly much better Talarico.
Democrats should run ads of Bondi and Johnson working feverishly to redact Trumps name from the E files and covering up capital crimes.
This is pure evil of them.
Well they’re pure evil
And their user base actually isn’t sufficiently capable enough of determining these things as real or AI, and its going to get really really ugly.
Go the other way and make positive memes for the Dems, for fucks sake. Flood the Internet with good shit
The truth is less viral. If it doesn’t make people upset and angry, they don’t rage-share it or repost it.
Spreading unfocused positivity doesn’t succeed nearly as much as picking at someone’s specific anger or insecurity and then validating it.
One makes people sigh and roll their eyes at inspirational quotes and the general feeling of being “shamed” by messaging that shows other people doing good things and for the insecure and angry, that just feels like being told “Why can’t you be better?”
Meanwhile if you’re is stressed and uneducated and hopeless feeling, being told that there is a specific group or segment of the population around you who is facilitating all your misery, well that’s a call to action. That’s a tangible thing you can get mad at and rage against and blame for your woes and it requires no actual work to get that feeling of satisfaction.
It’s a survival response that companies and political entities have learned how to exploit and there’s no quick answer for it. It may never be solved.
Maybe if all shifted our informational/media attention more towards understanding our own limitations and failings in our emotional/cognitive ability, we could start broadly pushing the needle towards systems that protect us from ourselves, but I strongly feel like we’re going to slide backwards a good long ways before we start making any forward progress again. This is the long-arc of time, and part of coming to terms with the injustice is understanding we won’t see that better tomorrow. We can work towards it and try to set it up for our descendants, but the best we can hope for in the moment is finding a little peace and comfort in our personal lives.
You are right and I agree. The problem here is that people just don’t give a shit about what happens in the future.
I have two conservatives in my life. One of them is a childhood friend, the other is my boss. I argue with both of them regularly, and they’ve both said the same thing to me- “we’ll be dead before it matters” roughly. The first has two kids and the second says he wants kids. I just don’t get it.
Maybe this is why times of uncertainty and fear of the future lead to authoritarianism, it makes people not care. If you don’t care, you aren’t curious, you’re just grinding through the days to see if “something happens” and cannot live in the present because you’re stuck worried about the future and longing for the past.
Cool, Sora’s cheap
Internet: do your thing
Just remake this exact ad with republicans and flood the internet with it. Literally build the same prompts until it’s hella obvious.
Or just make deep fakes where Republicans do what they are literally doing, like taking food out of the mouths of children.
Exactly. They truly are doing heinous shit and always get to hide behind the fact that most people don’t experience it so it’s “not happening”. One of the very few legit AI usages would be to make that fucked up shit feel real to conservatives. Who knows, maybe a handful of them would actually grapple with the monstrous acts they support.
Or diddling kids
Let’s not make virtual CSAM please… Especially given how much of that slips into training data… Jailbreaking models gives legit children…
don’t… don’t fucking deepfake that
well, obviously not the act itself, but it can be very heavily implied
don’t do it
Yanking IVs out of the arms of old people and throwing their medications out the window, laughing maniacally, then handing over wads of cash to Elon Musk, Clarence Thomas, etc
If you’re gonna deep fake on MAGA, make videos of Trump calling them dumb and how he controls them by making them feel smart. You gotta hit them in their existential dread. Of course they’ll never see the videos because of echo chambers and cognitive dissonance, but the point is: intelligence insecurity is what makes them tick… and bigotry.
You don’t need AI for that.
Trump has said that he likes a poorly education and that smart people don’t like him.
And all the poorly educated cheered.
I’m pretty sure stupidity is a virtue for most of them. Intelligence is “woke”
hear me out, let’s stop fucking using trans people and hormones as some sort of “gotcha”
What fucking estrogen kit would that even be? It looks so fucking fake, needles haven’t looked like that in decades. My estrogen needle and syringe is also tiny as fuck, there are two bottles in that kit, and only one bandaid that’s already had the wrapping removed? This is the most obviously fake bullshit I have ever seen not just because of how dumb it is but because of how inaccurate that stuff is.
Also, two needles/syringes? Just two? So it’s two doses? That’s not much of a kit considering that’d be two weeks of a dose. Plus the syringes being so large shows they don’t understand how little your dosage is, I take .3ml every Friday, that syringe is too large to even be able to draw so little and measure it accurately. Also I’ve never seen a bottle of estrogen that fucking big, they literally don’t ship that large. I’m just. This is so fucking dumb.
It kind of looks like an attempt at a sitcom parody, with no music. Unfortunately it’s also all blatant lies.
But you’re not the target audience. Their target audience doesn’t care about all those ‘minor’ details and they don’t want to see how fake it is.
All they will see is something that verfies their bullshit beliefs and justifies their bigotry.
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Here’s the thing:
This is the reason why attorneys will say objectionable shit during a trial that is “stricken” from the record and the jury is told to disregard it-
Once it’s said, it can’t be unheard.
And with this shit, it can’t be unseen. Especially when the audience are a bunch of slack-jawed knuckle-dragging mouth breathers.
So calling it out is pretty pointless. They already believe it and they don’t change their minds.
Who upvotes this stuff telling people calling shit out is pointless? Think for yourselves, damn.
Because by the time it’s already out there- calling it out IS pointless. The damage is already done. Those that would believe otherwise, wouldn’t have been stupid enough to believe it to begin with.
And when you break it down- it’s pretty weird to be judging others who upvote something as people who can’t think for themselves. I didn’t ask or tell them to, yet here you are doing exact that.
I love the single open bandaid strapped to the lid.
Remember republicans hate immigrants more than child rapists/pedophiles. That is the type of people we are dealing with.
…In 1993, apparently? Given the clothes, hair, and background decor.
In a clothing store none the less
She should sue this is textbook defamation.
Mother-in-law texts incoming
This country is beyond fucked.
They just get to do anything they want. We’re being ruled by spoiled jocks.
“jocks” is being generous. These are the people who got kicked out of the intramural team, so they became the bully instead.
