404 Media report on a phenomenon that appears to be on the rise: the use of GenAI videos on a variety of platforms about highly politicized situations in cities for political purposes.
In this case, video materials were spread on TikTok using Google’s VEO AI video generator. This videos are suggesting that in Washington DC the issue of homeless people is running out of control, coinciding with recent Trump rants and his longer running agenda to accuse large (and mostly DEM voting) cities of gross mismanagement. AI generated representations of urban decline and lawlessness thus are mobilized for a ‘politics of fear’, where cities are portrayed s as cesspools in need of ‘cleaning up’.
I encountered this issue of AI generated disinformation about city protests before, in the case of the LA protests/riots against Trumps invocation of the National guard. That was still on a conservative video platform Rumble. But now the major ones are getting forced to, it appears.
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