• Advance UK paid a secretive AI operation to make its political campaign content
  • The same group created Danny Bones, a white-nationalist rapper whose videos target Muslims. They have been viewed millions of times
  • Experts said this could mark new ground in the use of AI tools for political ends
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    People have to stop asking me to meet this fictitious bigot, the answer will always be no.

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      create a new Mosley by artifice.

      I didn’t realise that Oswald Mosley was a rapper

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          Huey Long

          rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascist and a demagogue.

          Bizarre… kinda.

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    Ahh, the irony of white supremacists using a form of musical self-expression that black people created: rap.

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      Or rock, blues, house, country, etc. I think white people can solidly claim bagpipe dirges though, as long as the racists think Scottish people are white enough.

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          The Irish weren’t for awhile, either. What’s really wild is this case where an Indian man argued that he was white due to being Aryan, but the Supreme Court ruled that his argument did not contain a “common sense” definition of whiteness. So, the highest court in the land determined that whiteness is purely based on vibes.

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      Don’t get me started on skinheads. That subculture comes from Jamaica and the music they listen to was created by black people and/or leftists.

      Right wingers can’t create culture. They can only steal from others.

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      Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.

      It’s the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they’re listening to or how it came about until it’s shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.

      Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they’ve resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.

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        MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine

        Or Creedance Clearwater Revival. Or Guns N’ Roses. Those white redcappers hear something “anti-authority” as being exciting and “edgy” and appropriate the songs for their shit movement until they fucking read the lyrics (if they ever bother reading) and realize it’s messaged against them. Not to mention most artists are utterly and openly disgusted with MAGAts.

        The only has-been celebrity dickheads that actually exist for them are Kid Rock and Steven Seagal.

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          Precisely, but you’re giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.

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            “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen is widely regarded as a patriotic anthem. It’s played at so many sporting events and political rallies that most people think it celebrates American pride. But the song itself is about a small-town kid who gets drafted, sent to war, and then comes home to find himself unemployed, homeless, and abandoned by the system that sent him there.

            The irony is that media and propagandists grabbed the punchy chorus and stripped it from the rest of the song. An anti-establishment story about neglect and disillusionment that got balefully repurposed as an advertising jingle to drive military recruitment.

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          Dimension more nuanced than yours. You take extreme minority and apply their shortcomings to half of the political spectrum

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            Half the political spectrum are not far-right. At this stage, it’s probably not even a third, depending on where you draw the line. And of those third. what percentage are not (explicitly or implicitly) white supremacists?

            Anyway, they’re still fascists, even if they’re inconsistent ones, so fuck 'em.

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    So the far right is now following an influencer that doesn’t exist… Makes sense, they’re also afraid of the Dem, trans, woke, communist, elitist, gay, Muslim, female, leftist, atheist, scientific, immigrants!

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    Funny how these fake AI “influencers” and “musicians” always seem to come from the right.

    They are so devoid of creativity, and are so incapable making anything worthwhile, that they (try to) have AI do it instead.

    Pathetic

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      It’s genuinely shocking when you consider how shitty white boys will try to be a rapper about literally anything. There are multiple guys out there rapping about crypto, NFTs, and $GME. But these fucking losers had to get a computer to spit one out because they can’t even manage to be as appealing as a conspiracy theory about a mythical short squeeze that will reset the entire global financial system.

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          Rapping takes more skill than just saying a bunch of words fast over the right beat. A lot of middle/upper class white kids do not realize this and are not in the kind of environment to get real feedback on their rap.

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      Creativity that isn’t about pushing or punching down goes against the whole purpose of conservatism.

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      Because right is more aware of the truth: General populace doesn’t care if it’s AI or not. All they care about is quality

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        It’s not about quality. Most people use content just to fill a void. Look outside at the people around you. Just about everyone is looking at their phones on rides, listening to podcasts when walking. It’s just filler.

        The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space. All the manosphere/trad-life/christo-fascist/slopaganda crap flooded the internet, and then it became the norm—not because it was convincing, but because it was recognizable. People parrot what they hear; And that’s especially true for the majority of unintelligent folks who wish to masquerade as intelligent. It just so happens the masses heard a lot of “women/people of color/queers are destroying our great white Christian society”.

        There’s nothing about this that’s inherent to bigotry or conservative ideology; It’s just that USA conservative-aligned businessfolk bought up the outlets and skewed the scene a little bit in the favor of alt-right ideology. Over years that compounded, and now it’s seized the entire conversation. Perhaps lefties/liberals were hesitant to use those methods because they play to emotions, and not intelligence; But this is the reality of our current social sphere.

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          The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space.

          First this is completely untrue. Internet is open for everyone everyone can find media that suit their preferences . Second, for many years a lot of it was actually dominated by left. It’s just that pendulum swings back.

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            Algorithms took over searching, flood the algorithm with content and fake views and you dictate what others see.

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    Since you cannot copyright an AI creation, someone should just make him do like a woke anarchist rap or something.

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      I think we all know that most of the Right’s anger is due to repression. I think this AI needs to start confessing to the deep and sordid things that make him so angry. Confessing his deep and all consuming desire for pediatric necrophilia should really unburden his soul.

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      Sure. But left hates AI and apparently can’t do AI heavy worklfows. This is copyright free for all, and left still can’t fire back

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      It would be better if the woke rap was performed by real musicians but then using this ai’s images so they could actually copyright the music.

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    The irony of a group of frustrated males following the messages of make believe entity.

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    We are getting to the stage where we need laws to say that machines cannot impersonate humans. Synthetic humans are banned.

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      Yes, I’m sure that will be allowed to happen. Right after “you can’t use everyone’s doorbell camera as a giant worldwide face-tracking panopticon” and “PC components should be affordable enough for anyone to buy instead of having to rent cloud desktops from an AI datacenter”

      We are way way WAY more fucked than you think already.

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      Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind?

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    “I like the music people with souls make, but I’d like the lyrics to be more like the gaping black void that is my heart.”

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    What kind of sad, pathetic, angry people make things like this? I really do pity them. No one is out to get you losers.