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.

  • CptOblivius@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Remember republicans hate immigrants more than child rapists/pedophiles. That is the type of people we are dealing with.

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      Just remake this exact ad with republicans and flood the internet with it. Literally build the same prompts until it’s hella obvious.

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        3 months ago

        Or just make deep fakes where Republicans do what they are literally doing, like taking food out of the mouths of children.

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        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.

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      3 months ago

      “jocks” is being generous. These are the people who got kicked out of the intramural team, so they became the bully instead.

      • 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.

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      The truth is less viral. If it doesn’t make people upset and angry, they don’t rage-share it or repost it.

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    I wish that the democrats were that cool. If I’d had access to something like that as a minor I would have used it and my life would be markedly better for it. I hate thinking about what could have been.

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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.

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      Who upvotes this stuff telling people calling shit out is pointless? Think for yourselves, damn.

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        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.