DDonald Trump posing on Air Force One (the presidential plane), surrounded by cats and ducks. A feline dressed in military uniform, assault weapon in hand, MAGA cap (“Make America Great Again”) in the head. the 45my President Trump, a litter of kittens in his arms, which he protects behind a flaming sword. The presidential candidate, dressed as Superman, flies around carrying a canary or proudly rides a giant tabby cat in front of the American flag… Since September 8, and the spread in pro-Trump circles of the rumour that Haitians eat homemade food Animals, countless videos and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) on this subject have flooded social networks, sometimes shared by Elon Musk and Donald Trump himself. With one thing in common: instead of trying to prove the accusations, for example through pseudo-photographs of immigrants caught in the act, they all present Donald Trump in obviously absurd situations. To the delight of the Republican candidate’s supporters, excited by the irreverent and unconventional tone of the sequence.
On the Truth Social network, in activist circles on Facebook, or even on X, a platform now almost conquered by Trumpism, Internet users did not hide their joy: “Kamala is shaking. Trump posts cat memes before debate”laughs an Internet user. “The warning [la consigne à donner à un algorithme de génération d’image] is stronger than the sword”enjoy another. “The angrier Harris and the Democrats get, the more AI-created images and memes there will beestimates one third. You don’t have to pay people to fill the internet with funny and positive cat pictures! »
Pride of false rude
In fact, the rumour gave rise to a visual explosion as creative as it was destabilising. Based primarily on Grok, the algorithm launched by Elon Musk, the approach counters one of the fears raised by the democratisation of AI-generated images during campaigns.
There is no need to look for productions intended to deceive Internet users visually: on the contrary, these memes take on the aesthetics of AI and play with it, like certain failures shared with pride. Thus, crazy crosses between the hair of the Republican candidate and the fur of a feline, or pseudo-photographs showing ducks with three legs: AI is considered fallible when it comes to the number of fingers of humans, it is obviously also for the anatomy of animals, and the Trumpist sphere influences this. It does not say: look, it is true, about fake images; it boasts of producing grotesquely false images.
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