Originally published at: The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus - TPM – Talking Points Memo
[Essay] The Slopaganda Midterms This election cycle is rife with “slopaganda” — that is, AI-generated “slop” used for political propaganda. In a fascinating recent piece in the Washington Post, TPM alum Matt Shuham noted that roughly 164 of these ads have appeared on TV or online, mostly in service of Republican candidates. As Matt points out,…
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The Hawks/Hawkeyes conflation is yet still stupider than even that. Hawks start time was 7:30. The Maryland tipoff was at 8:00.
My best guess is that the whole thing was the text messages getting fed into Grok and then prompted with something like “What is the evidence that Jack Smith did the collusion with Fanni Willis to frame trump?”
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So, our next major cult will obviously be started by an AI.
And, I presume it will feature “liquid death” because it supposedly tastes good.
But its all good, drugs fail to kill woman. (I know so much of the news by only skimming only the headlines!)
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No so out there. It was reported last week (Time interview) that Trump consults GROK on policy.
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Or may be not:
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Saturday’s Heather & Paul:
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I’m entirely serious. It’s the DOGE-ification of white nationalist GOP staffers.
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It’s way stupider than that.
Grok is clearly smarter than Schmitt, and the question is ridiculous because Smith and Willis have never even met. Smith has said so under oath.
Schmitt was under orders to smear Smith, and he tried to follow orders, albeit in a remarkably ham-handed and deeply stupid way.
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“If you’re evil you are at least competent. If you’re evil, you’re not bad. You’re actually maybe kind of good. You’re at least getting something done.” – Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel chaneling Eddie Murphy channeling a vampire channeling a preacher.
Clip’s a little over 3 minutes but worth watching the whole thing.
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My guess that whole farce of a hearing was “accuse him of SOMETHING – we’ll find evidence later.” Which is not how things work. There are also reports that this was spoon-fed to the committee by the White House, and the WH told them there was no need to vet it.
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I believe this article is open to read.
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Eric Schmitt should have known he had Jack Shit…
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