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submitted 12 hours ago by TRAHR@quokk.au to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is targeting Spanish-speaking voters with an AI-generated ad that shows a caricature of a trans girl playing soccer against high school girls. The ad even features an AI-generated version of his Democratic opponent, Xavier Becerra, taking a policy position that he does not take in real life.

The ad is raising questions about how AI is used both to create problems that don’t exist – the ad used generative AI to portray the trans girl as a much older man pushing cis girls around in a high school soccer game, which doesn’t happen in real life – and to put words in political opponents’ mouths.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 1 hour ago

The most bizarre thing to me is statistically trans athletes perform much worse in sports than before. The most basic logic completely derails this bullshit but conservatives can't even process that.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 hours ago

Knew this was coming. Surprised it's this blatant already, though.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

should just respond with a AIGEN video of him reading the Epstein files and then look up at the camera to say, "I support pedophilia."

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 128 points 12 hours ago

Deep fake laws need to have severe punishments.

[-] kalapala@sopuli.xyz 55 points 12 hours ago

If it fits inside marketing budget it's not a punishment but just a price tag.

[-] h0tbeef@lemmy.zip 30 points 12 hours ago
[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 28 points 11 hours ago

Believe it or not, straight to guillotine

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 11 hours ago

The ad even features an AI-generated version of his Democratic opponent, Xavier Becerra, taking a policy position that he does not take in real life.

This should be considered fraud. Making claims about a political opponent that are a reach is whatever, that’s politics. But making realistic footage of your opponent saying something they never said is just beyond the pale.

[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 40 minutes ago

How is that not illegal already?

Can you just pubicly impersonate someone?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 16 points 8 hours ago
[-] ech@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago

Yes, but also more. Impersonation. Fraud. All of the above.

[-] Pratai@piefed.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

The retards that fall at his feet even when he called them idiots will absolutely believe it’s true. We’re looking at a war brewing:

One between common sense and abject ignorance.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Slurs fucking suuuck!

[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 61 points 12 hours ago

When the fuck is this transphobe shit gonna be over?

[-] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 24 points 11 hours ago

When they put them all in camps and move on to the next group.

It will never stop. Control of sexuality is a fundamental aspect of authoritarian systems, because it creates (a) blackmail (b) transgressive opportunities for the elites (c) sexual frustration that can be weaponized.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago

This is genocide

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago

When we get private equity out of kids’ sports.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 10 points 9 hours ago

Not that that's a bad idea, but it's not going to take care of the transphobe shit.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

I think if we brought back intramural, gender-oblivious sports with the same tryouts for everyone we’d put a dent in both transphobia and sexism and get kids moving around more.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 11 points 12 hours ago

Money changes EVERYTHING!

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

And endless number of types of prejudice and racism was forgotten and moved past because it became irrelevant as social classes transformed entirely. The ones that remain over time does so because of influential people who keep choosing to push for it.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

When the global society as a whole decides it's cool to want to fuck people of the same sex.

[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 1 points 11 hours ago

Likely not in any of our lifetimes.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 33 points 12 hours ago

The ad is raising questions

The questions are "why didn't anyone listen to people pointing out this obvious outcome years ago and make it illegal to do in this context"?

[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

The maker of the ad most likely supports men beating girls ~~in sports~~.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Yet another reminder that Steve Hilton is a piece of shit.

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 points 11 hours ago

This is STUPID because Republicans are KNOWN to do Their Own Research TM and will KNOW that This is AI Generated! And BECAUSE of this Ad so FLAGRANTLY Spitting on the Intelligence of Republicans they'll ~~DENOUNCE Hilton!~~ Vote OVERWHELMINGLY for Hilton!

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