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  • 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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[–] kvasir476@lemmy.world 139 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Meet the AI rapper funded by a far right party"

No... No, I don't think I will.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

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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[–] Cherry@piefed.social 68 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] db2@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Irony? Repeating pattern is more like it.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

We've reinvented religion

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes my favorite. "Rage FOR the machine"

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Right wing culture is so cooked they have to resort to AI.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

There was like the AI big tiddy goth British girl as well

[–] LaoiseFu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

There is no culture, only an extreme lack of mental ability, cushioned by laziness - and they can't even make up shitty rhymes about stuff they don't understand,-so this is mana from heaven to bolster half baked beliefs. It's fucking sick because people will swallow this shit, and it will have a real world effect.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] coalie@piefed.zip 21 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

Impossible copyright infringement of the derivative of the stolen generic. Love it.

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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"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.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

They can only steal from others.

And then degrade it and dumb it down.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I see a lot more hoodies and face masks in our future.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Getting to be that sort urgency.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Ah, these wankers have to create a new Mosley by artifice.

image

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

"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."

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

The worst part about Danny Bones is that there's no way to punch a virtual face.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

The people making the slop absolutely are.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

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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