Recently, Donald Trump fans in Florida and Michigan have been auto-generating and spreading around faked ā€œpicturesā€ of Trump surrounded by crowds of Black supportersā€”and earning significant traction for doing so. Coming at a time when President Joe Biden is worried about losing the Black voters who came out for his 2020 election, the Trump images have become a whole new subgenre of A.I. sludge. And no one in any position of power appears to know what to do about it.

Last month,Ā BBC PanoramaĀ reported on theĀ proliferation of these deceitful likenesses. The first example displayed Trump at a Christmas party with his arm around a couple of Black women, one of whom is seen wearing a Pen & Pixelā€“style tank; another shows him sitting on a house porch with six young Black men, smiling with his hands clasped. Both images gained substantial traction on Facebook, sans disclosure that they were A.I.-generated, and were misleadingly appended as context for stories on Trumpā€™s increasing appeal to Black voters.

  • fluxion@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So letā€™s start posting AI images of Trump getting pegged by hired pornstars and hanging out with neo-Nazis

    Actually we probably donā€™t even need AI for that.

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      7 months ago

      If you really want to stir shit, depict him bent over a toilet in a grungy bar bathroom getting done by a black trans-woman. Or show him looking weepy sitting on his gold toilet as just outside in the bedroom Melania is getting railed by a couple of black guys.

      I feel like that would hit a lot of triggers with that crowd.

      (Side note: I do not hold the opinion that interracial sex or sex with trans folk should be shameful or fetishizedā€¦ but they do.)

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      7 months ago

      Thatā€™s a good point. You canā€™t plant a seed anywhere and expect it to blossom. The soil needs to be primed to accept the seed.

      Iā€™m in the middle of reading an article about how phones and social media are affecting the mental health of the youth. We all believe this to be a fact yet the scientific evidence actually does not support it. Itā€™s easier to convince people that somethingā€™s true when they already feel like it should be true. Where ā€œshould be trueā€ (or want to be true) comes from for each individual is something to consider.