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.

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      6 hours ago

      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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        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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        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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          Yanking IVs out of the arms of old people and throwing their medications out the window, laughing maniacally, then handing over wads of cash to Elon Musk, Clarence Thomas, etc

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          Exactly. They truly are doing heinous shit and always get to hide behind the fact that most people don’t experience it so it’s “not happening”. One of the very few legit AI usages would be to make that fucked up shit feel real to conservatives. Who knows, maybe a handful of them would actually grapple with the monstrous acts they support.