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Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

It’s depressing how easily GAI photography is being folded into the news cycle of the attention economy. Consider this Guardian piece reporting on Donald Trump sharing a video with an image of Biden tied up in the back of a truck. It’s not an image which intends to deceive as much as, perhaps, prefigure but it just becomes another instance of controversial content which generates mainstream media coverage:

Donald Trump drew an angry response from the Joe Biden White House as well as other opponents after he posted a video containing the image of the president hog-tied on the tailgate of a passing pickup truck.

The Biden campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, said the provocative image of the truck festooned with Trump 2024 insignia on Friday night could be construed as suggesting physical harm toward the former president’s political rival.

“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously – just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” Tyler said, referring to the day in early 2021 when the ex-president’s supporters attacked Congress.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/trump-rebuked-biden-hog-tied-video
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