Donald Trump supporters are targeting black voters with disinformation, including AI-generated fake images of the former president, campaigners have warned.
I get the concept that mental associations form, without the logical brain needing to be involved. I’m aware of the power of certain types of branding, and yet still I still buy Crest for the most part, because it’s the “right kind” of toothpaste and that association was formed in my brain without there being a good reason for it and without my consent.
I’m also familiar with people in the real world who would be 1,000% the first ones to suffer under Trump’s egregiously fascist policies, who still support him for some fuckin reason. Hispanics who support Trump because they have some weird linkage in their brain that makes him “socially conservative” in a way that make them feel good about him, even though the reality of him is far, far, far from anything that would have created that linkage based on reality.
All that being said
What on earth type of black person sees a picture of Trump with some smiling black people and thinks anything except “man those smiling black people are some bullshit” even if they think the smiling black people are real people
As a white person I still find it hard to believe other white people support trump
I repeat this a lot, but not everyone is aware just how stupid facists are. Anti-intellectualism, by it’s own nature, demands the purging of critical thought, no matter how small it is.
There is only one thing that matters to the modern Nazi - “does this give me power now.” It attracts a lot of stupid people. Nazi Germany leaders that were ever so slightly “not” in the “good group” Were largely killed, either in the night of the long knives or at some point prior to 1945. If you stood in the way of someone more powerful, even if perceived, you were removed.
This attracts a lot of people, who somehow think “oh that will be me on top some day.”
I guess a cream pie is a kind of white supremacy
Yes it’s a little bit concerning but as someone in the black community, we are literally laughing that this is such a big deal on both sides. Anything short of MLK and Jesus rasing from the grave to endorse Trump wouldn’t win our vote. Stop acting like black people are dumb voters that just blindly follow. Black individuals are some of the most educated people when it comes to voting, because one election is all that stands between us and enslavement. Republicans think sneakers and a few pictures of Trump with black people will win him the election, and the fact that democrats are giving those attention is more concerning.
If it felt like I was condescending towards the black community, with this meme, it was not at all intended. I was making fun of Trump fanatics for trying this, mostly as a bystander from outside the US!
It’s not. Your edited picture is more convincing than a the Ai ones. Trump would 100% get dicked down by 6 BBCs to win the presidential election
I hope they never fix that part of AI. It’s a bit comforting that right now you can look and hands and fingers and limb positions more closely to see. If they fix that then how will we tell disinformation campaigns like this.
I’ve also noticed that clipping is a huge problem for AI, especially in video. A lot of backgrounds have something that’s impossible in them.
There are multiple sources reporting this in many countries
