Trump’s Love of AI Slop Peaks With Taylor Swift ‘Endorsement’

Donald Trump is reposting AI slop on his Fact Social account and it’s gotten uncontrolled shortly. On Sunday, the previous president posted 4 screenshots of Trump-loving Taylor Swift followers from another person’s X account. In one of many photos an AI-generated picture of Swift dressed as Uncle Sam factors on the viewers.

“Taylor desires YOU to VOTE for DONALD TRUMP,” the picture reads, implying Swift has given Trump her endorsement. She has not.

“I settle for!” Trump wrote above the photographs.

One other of the posts Trump shared was of a collage of various AI generated photos of pro-Trump swifties shared above a faux headline clearly marked “satire.” In one other publish, the AI-generated swifties stand alongside a really actual pro-Trump Swiftie.

“Swifites for Trump” just isn’t a big and highly effective political motion however it’s actual. Swift is the preferred musician on the planet. She shells thousands and thousands of albums in a world the place individuals not purchase albums. Her excursions promote out throughout the planet and a filmed model of The Eras Tour was a field workplace smash.

Swifties are usually not a monoculture. The one factor they’ve in widespread is an abiding love of Swift’s music. When virtually everybody on the planet is a fan, there’s going to be a bizarre political combine within the crowd. There are dozens of movies on TikTok of Swift followers declaring their love for Trump whereas lip-syncing over Mastermind and I Did Something Bad. There’s additionally lots of of examples of Harris fans doing the same.

We’ll by no means know if Trump took the posts, which embody a mixture of AI-generated photos and actual photographs, at face worth. However we do know he’s been posting lots of AI slop on his Fact Social account the previous couple of weeks.

Anybody with older dad and mom on Fb has in all probability seen related conduct. Whether or not of an idealized previous that was by no means actual or a non-existent dystopian current, there’s no bullshit picture that they received’t publish on most important. One other widespread theme is Kamala Harris internet hosting rallies in entrance of massive Soviet flags. One of many X accounts Trump promoted on Fact Social can be sharing AI-generated photos of Harris as a Chinese-style communist.

AI generated slop is ubiquitous now. The images aren’t convincing and, up to now, don’t appear to be huge vectors of disinformation. Nobody appears to be fooled by these items, they aren’t about convincing somebody of one thing that isn’t true. As an alternative, this election cycle’s viral AI-generated photos are about convincing the creator and the viewers they’ve captured one thing about an imagined fact.

Professional-Trump people need to dwell in a world the place Swift has endorsed Trump they usually use an AI-generator to make it occur. Towards all proof, they need to imagine Harris is a wannabe communist dictator so that they make photos that mirror that actuality. AI-image mills are simply photoshop for individuals who can’t be bothered to be taught photoshop.

Donald Trump Fact Social 11:58 PM EST 08/17/24 @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/8Bc5wdy8EC

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Fact Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) August 18, 2024