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

Donald Trump is reposting AI slop connected his Truth Social relationship and it’s gotten retired of power quickly. On Sunday, the erstwhile president posted 4 screenshots of Trump-loving Taylor Swift fans from idiosyncratic else’s X account. In 1 of the images an AI-generated representation of Swift dressed arsenic Uncle Sam points astatine the audience.

“Taylor wants YOU to VOTE for DONALD TRUMP,” the representation reads, implying Swift has fixed Trump her endorsement. She has not.

“I accept!” Trump wrote supra the photos.

Another of the posts Trump shared was of a collage of antithetic AI generated pictures of pro-Trump swifties shared supra a fake header intelligibly marked “satire.” In different post, the AI-generated swifties basal alongside a precise existent pro-Trump Swiftie.

©Image via Truth Social.

“Swifites for Trump” is not a ample and almighty governmental question but it is real. Swift is the astir fashionable instrumentalist connected the planet. She shells millions of albums successful a satellite wherever radical nary longer bargain albums. Her tours merchantability retired crossed the satellite and a filmed mentation of The Eras Tour was a container bureau smash.

Swifties are not a monoculture. The lone happening they person successful communal is an abiding emotion of Swift’s music. When astir everyone connected the satellite is simply a fan, there’s going to beryllium a weird governmental premix successful the crowd. There are dozens of videos connected TikTok of Swift fans declaring their emotion for Trump portion lip-syncing implicit Mastermind and I Did Something Bad. There’s besides hundreds of examples of Harris fans doing the same.

We’ll ne'er cognize if Trump took the posts, which see a premix of AI-generated images and existent photos, astatine look value. But we bash cognize he’s been posting a batch of AI slop connected his Truth Social relationship the past fewer weeks.

Anyone with older parents connected Facebook has astir apt seen akin behavior. Whether of an idealized past that was ne'er existent oregon a non-existent dystopian present, there’s nary bullshit representation that they won’t station connected main. Another fashionable taxable is Kamala Harris hosting rallies successful beforehand of massive Soviet flags. One of the X accounts Trump promoted connected Truth Social is besides sharing AI-generated images of Harris arsenic a Chinese-style communist.

AI generated slop is ubiquitous now. The pictures aren’t convincing and, truthful far, don’t look to beryllium monolithic vectors of disinformation. No 1 seems to beryllium fooled by these things, they aren’t astir convincing idiosyncratic of thing that isn’t true. Instead, this predetermination cycle’s viral AI-generated images are astir convincing the creator and the assemblage they’ve captured thing astir an imagined truth.

Pro-Trump folks privation to unrecorded successful a satellite wherever Swift has endorsed Trump and they usage an AI-generator to marque it happen. Against each evidence, they privation to judge Harris is simply a wannabe communist dictator truthful they marque images that bespeak that reality. AI-image generators are conscionable photoshop for radical who can’t beryllium bothered to larn photoshop.

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

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