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Shkruar nga David Ingram
The use of generative artificial intelligence by Trump and his staff has increased significantly...
At midnight Thursday, as the government shutdown loomed, President Donald Trump posted a video on “Truth” showing himself in the Oval Office throwing one of his red hats at someone’s head while the Village People’s song “YMCA” played.
Trump points and laughs.
The scene was a fabrication: It was a doctored video intended to play the role of a recent meeting between Trump and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Recall that just a few days ago, Trump had posted an edited video of Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, which included fake audio and showed Jeffries in a cartoon sombrero.
Love it or hate it, Trump's embrace of synthetic media has proven effective in capturing attention at a time when meme-filled politics have exploded on social media.
Trump's sharing of AI-generated media appears to be accelerating. He has posted dozens of pieces of material, including AI-generated images and fake videos, to his Truth Social account since returning to the White House in January, according to an NBC News assessment.
Many of the posts were taken from other people who posted them for the first time on the internet.
"They go viral. They get attention. They're this kind of political meme. They're a little weird," said Valerie Wirtschattengewächer, an independent fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the use of artificial intelligence in politics.
As the government shutdown is expected to extend into next week, Trump posted four videos in four days that appeared to have been created or altered with technology, including one set to an alternate version of Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper," featuring Russ Vought, an apparent reference to plans for mass layoffs of government workers.
The posts have a huge online audience. They are shared to Trump’s 10.8 million followers on Truth Social. And many of the posts are later shared on Trump’s other social media accounts, including X, where he has 109.5 million followers. Some of the AI’s posts get tens of millions of views, according to X’s data, creating an incentive to post more of them.
The use of generative artificial intelligence by Trump and his staff has grown significantly alongside the broader growth of internet technology. Millions of people are downloading artificial intelligence engines like Google Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, creating waves of synthetic content for social media.
Trump has cast himself as an ally of the AI industry, inviting tech CEOs to the White House and releasing an “Artificial Intelligence Action Plan” to encourage development. And shares of companies at the forefront of AI are booming, sending the stock market to record highs this week.
And this comes at a time when generative AI continues to develop rapidly, with this week's release of OpenAI's Sora 2 putting advanced video generation on millions of smartphones.
The White House said it supports Trump's sharing of artificial intelligence-generated content.
" President Trump is the most memetic communicator in presidential history, and his use of social media has been key to bringing his 'Make America Great Again' movement to the forefront of American politics and society ," White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to NBC News.
The Trump administration has fully embraced technology as part of its communications strategy for its second term.
Federal agencies often post memes and artificial intelligence images on social media to amuse Trump's base, such as a drawing in March that appeared to mock a crying immigrant who had been arrested.
" He's incredibly transparent, as you all know ," White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt said at a press conference on Wednesday.
" You can hear about him directly on social media. He likes to share memes. He likes to share videos. He likes to repost things that he sees other people post on social media, too, and I think it's quite refreshing that we have a president who is so open and honest, directly with himself ," she said.
Artificial intelligence experts said Trump is creating an alternative world for his followers.
Samuel Woolley, an associate professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh, said that artificial intelligence-generated images and videos can "bend reality" for the people who consume them.
"They serve the purposes of individuals and entities who hope to create a narrative that is alternative to scientific facts, or to create a whole new version of what people should pay attention to and what is important ," he said.
While some of the images and videos, like the one in February about Trump's rule over Gaza, have attracted widespread attention, others have received little attention in a frenetic information environment.
Trump also posts many unedited images and videos alongside written messages, sometimes in his characteristic all-caps writing style.
Në maj, Trump i shpërfilli pyetjet në lidhje me një imazh të gjeneruar nga inteligjenca artificiale të tij si Papë.
Imazhi ishte shfaqur në llogarinë e tij Truth Social dhe në një llogari të Shtëpisë së Bardhë X, dhe Trump tha se nuk kishte të bënte fare me të.
“Ata nuk e durojnë dot shakanë?”, tha Trump në atë kohë, duke iu referuar katolikëve që thanë se ishin ofenduar nga imazhi. “Më lini të qetë. Ishte thjesht, dikush e bëri për qejf. Është në rregull. Duhet të argëtohemi pak, apo jo?”
Shtëpia e Bardhë gjithashtu e ka hedhur poshtë idenë se shakatë në internet janë disi nën autoritetin e zyrës, duke postuar në X në korrik : “Askund në Kushtetutë nuk thuhet se nuk mund të postojmë meme të ndyra.”
Trump shpesh përdor inteligjencën artificiale për të sulmuar rivalët politikë. Një “deepfake” e përfaqësueses Nancy Pelosi, demokrate nga Kalifornia, e ndarë nga Trump më 8 shtator përdor një zë të falsifikuar për ta paraqitur Pelosin duke pranuar një krim.
Një postim më 3 shtator paraqiti Guvernatorin Demokrat JB Pritzker të Illinois dhe ish-Guvernatorin e Neë Jersey-t Chris Christie, një republikan, si mundës.
Një postim në korrik e paraqiti Senatorin Demokrat Adam Schiff, demokrat nga Kalifornia, me pranga.
Neësom, i cili gjithashtu kohët e fundit ka përqafuar postimin e memeve, u kundërpërgjigj të martën, me zyrën e tij të shtypit që postoi një video të gjeneruar nga inteligjenca artificiale mbi X që sulmon Vance.
Një postim i Trump në Truth Social më 20 korrik përdori inteligjencën artificiale për të treguar në mënyrë të rreme agjentët e FBI-së duke arrestuar ish-Presidentin Barack Obama.
Për Trumpin, përqafimi i mediave të reja është një aftësi e vjetër, që pasqyron ndikimin e tij mbi gazetat tabloide të Nju Jorkut në vitet 1980 përmes përdorimit të Tëitter-it , tani X, kur ky i fundit ishte ende i ri.
“Ai është një mjeshtër i manipulimit të medias, që daton shumë kohë më parë. Ajo që ai po bën është dominimi në mediat sociale, në televizion, në media të tjera lajmesh, dhe kjo jep iluzionin se kështu janë gjërat tani”, tha Michelle Amazeen, një profesoreshë e asociuar e komunikimit në Universitetin e Bostonit, e cila hulumton dezinformimin.
Amazeen tha se mediat e gjeneruara nga inteligjenca artificiale mund të mos jenë aq të njohura sa duket.
Disa nga postimet e Trumpit mbi inteligjencën artificiale lidhen me tema serioze politike.
Në gusht, Trump postoi një imazh fiktiv të vetes në kambanën e famshme të Bursës së Nju Jorkut pranë një shenje për diçka të quajtur Korporata e Madhe Amerikane e Hipotekave.
Kjo kompani nuk duket se ekziston, por postimi dukej se i referohej një propozimi për të shitur aksionet e qeverisë në gjigantët e hipotekave Fannie Mae dhe Freddie Mac nën një entitet të ri me simbolin MAGA. Një shitje nuk ka ndodhur, por mbetet një temë diskutimi .
On a Saturday in September, Trump posted a cartoon image depicting him firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, also prompting media coverage.
Sometimes Trump's intent is simply not clear, said Daniel Schiff, an assistant professor of technology policy at Purdue University.
Schiff said Trump is the most popular subject for AI hoaxes across the internet, among fans and critics.
"Most deepfakes are about Trump ," he said, excluding sexual deepfakes./ Taken from "NBC News" , adapted by "Pamphlet"
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