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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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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes my favorite. "Rage FOR the machine"

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rage from within the machine

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Rage fuels the machine

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

People have to stop asking me to meet this fictitious bigot, the answer will always be no.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] LaoiseFu@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours 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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

image

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

create a new Mosley by artifice.

I didn't realise that Oswald Mosley was a rapper

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Epic Rap Battles of Alt History: Oswald Mosley vs Huey Long

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 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.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Scottish and Italians not being white, I just could never understand. XD Racism's some crazy work.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Wow, I had no idea that case existed. It really shows how dumb the concept of race is.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 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 5 points 15 hours ago

They can only steal from others.

And then degrade it and dumb it down.

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day 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 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

There's already a white rapper named Bones

[–] Janx@piefed.social 8 points 1 day 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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