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The account is an example of how artificial intelligence is being used to push political agendas in wartime

MAGA has been swooning over photos of a blonde U.S. Army soldier, walking defiantly alongside President Donald Trump to carry out the America First agenda. But there’s just one problem — she’s AI.

Images most likely generated by artificial intelligence depicted Jessica Foster wearing heels on a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz, posing for selfies with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and giving a speech at the president’s “Board of Peace” event earlier this year.

The account, which has since been taken down, gained more than one million followers since its mysterious creator started posting on it four months ago, The Washington Post reports.

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[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Does it really matter? These people were detached from reality long before AI was a thing. These are the people who swallowed horse dewormer to fight off a virus, stormed the capitol to hang their own party's VP over election fraud that never happened (but that they are now actively preparing themselves), and attacked a pizzeria to save children from the clutches of pedophiles (all the while ignoring their idol's ties to, and probably involvement with the crimes of, pedophile child trafficker Epstein).

We must come to grips with the fact that a significant part of the U.S. population is living in an alternative, media-generated universe. Baudrillard would be laughing his arse off if he could see it. The question is: how to deal with that.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

There almost definitely was voter fraud in 2020, but a different party was doing it than MAGA thinks. They got better at it in 2024.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It seems you've thought deeply about this. I've done so as well.

It really fucking freaks me out that such a large chunk of our society is detached from objective, verifiable realty. A fair amount of what they believe is pants-on-head crazy vengeance fantasy. Another big chunk has spooky parallels to literal Nazi propaganda such as the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, it's so similar that it's obviously just borrowed. It's shocking that more people don't see it for what it transparently is.

I have no clue what can be done about it. I don't know how society heals this or reinforces the value of facts, sanity, and critical thinking.

You got anything? Any thoughts about where we go from here? How to unfuck their heads? Where does this end if they aren't deprogrammed? How long will we be trapped in this?

Genuine questions because I ain't got a fucking clue at this point.

[–] MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it is a fight on all fronts situation.

If I am picking a single issue I am picking transparency. Without it you don't have a democracy.

I push for more ranked voting, there are a few types that all seem fine.

Illinois just had a plurality wins primary, that's crazy to me.

I found a thing I was looking for, referred from activistchecklist.org

"You’re three people who’ve held #meetings, made decisions, navigated disagreement, migrated platforms, and built a #SetOfAgreements you wrote yourselves. That’s not common."

https://readnarrowpath.com/

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

Those are good security guides.

I think I'm at the point where it's more about keeping my head down. Protect my family and people. Hope we don't end up in a camp.

Until one of these occurs, nothing changes: some real national leadership opposing this, more than 5% start going hungry, or large numbers of people are being murdered/placed in camps.

[–] MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

We all have vulnerable friends and family, it is a great time to stay in touch, build and rebuild relationships.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 208 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (14 children)

What is a woman?

Is this a woman?

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 116 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This might have too many rights to be a woman.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago

They definitely give this way more power than they would any woman.

[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A miserable little pile of secrets?

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aaah! Ah fuck, oh god! Aaaaaaah!

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Only 1 possible word though. The rest would be a man.

  • La computadora
  • El ordenador
  • El centro de datos
  • El servidor
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A woman is clearly the opposite of man so thusly I propose that a woman is a feathered quadruped.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Why must she have four? Why can she not have six, eight, or a hundred?

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[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Do military women really wear that kind of uniform with fragile pantyhose? And high heels aboard a warship? That alone would make me call BS.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 109 points 3 days ago (9 children)

if you're stupid enough to believe this... you're stupid enough to be a Republican.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah yes, high-heeled shoes on a wet deck while leaning on the railing of a giant, moving ship. What could go wrong?

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Wow she is farting super hard

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 68 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Where are my pantyhose! I'm going to war!

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you ready to go yet?

Hang on, I'm almost finished putting my 16 fingers on!

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Ohh sexy war.

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Believing is one thing, but in what world do you join the army or support terrorism because there is some hot chick there?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You gotta remember how dumb some folks are

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Then remember they are even dumber than that.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As george carlin said, think about how stupid the average person is and remember half of them are dumber than that

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Every us navy boat has a hot chick room what do you mean

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

For a lot of folks, sadly, this one.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 days ago

"We need more heels on the ground!"

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[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 112 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

Any MAGA who fell for this is beyond stupid (plus utterly unfamiliar with the military). Her uniform is wrong (skirt WAYYY too high). No one wears dress uniforms underway at sea in general, ESPECIALLY an enlisted soldier (who would likely be nowhere near a ship, even more especially in dress uniform). The ribbons on her dress uniform not only change from picture to picture, but are also the wrong size (sometimes) and not even actual US ribbons. I've never seen a regulation name tag say "US ARMY" and not a name. The undershirt in her camis isn't regulation. And this was just a quick look at the photos and only tangentially around the Army at work.

Oh and that's before the visible glitches because it's AI. This is laughably low effort.

EDIT: Damn, they didn't even use a real ship as the background. It's supposed to be a destroyer, and there are no US destroyers with an aft-facing bridge or part of the superstructure forward of the bridge windows. Just truly WTF

EDIT 2.0: I just saw a couple other photos because I got curious. One has her as a one-star general 😂, and a couple others have her wearing a (shitty looking) Combat Infantry Badge, which is only awarded for being in combat. So, I guess women CAN hack it in combat! Hegseth must be in shambles.

https://m.xkcd.com/2501/

The only thing that stood out to me was the high heels and skirt instead of proper trousers.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She's hot and it's pro-Trump. Why should they care if it's real or not if it tickles their...confirmation bias?

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, people are really overthinking this. These are enthusiastic Trump voters. It’s not like they voted for Trump, but are otherwise intelligent, rational people in all other respects. The same disordered thinking that led to their voting choices impacts every aspect of their lives.

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[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I thought Kegsbreath declared women had no business being in the military? It's only for manly manly warrior men like himself?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

LOL, "America First agenda".

Just what the holy fuck does that even mean according these dumbasses? Because Donvict and his pals are all about America LAST and themselves first.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 52 points 3 days ago (4 children)

How many of the accounts that followed this one were actually bot/“AI” accounts designed to do nothing but help boost shit like this to a place where the press reports on it?

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

“No she isn’t. She’s more of a man than you are”. -MAGAcucks

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The pic of her in a vehicle with her bare feet sticking out the window appeared to show her with three boobs under her shirt, her right side boob having it's own seeming cleavage.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

Without seeking it out, I've seen 2 versions of the referenced image: that one, and one with 2 boobs. Hopefully they were fooled by the lesser alien-looking one...

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

These MAGA freaks are just perfectly positioned to be scammed with AI, aren't they? Blind patriotism/nationalism, easy to manufacture images of the stereotypical people they hate, rejection of science and facts, unshakable loyalty to the Pedophile-In-Chief, zero critical thinking skills, intense tribalism, single echo-chamber source of "news", love for a pretty, white face, low intelligence, etc. I know some of them have already fallen for scams, but I bet it's nothing like what we'll see in the future, most likely by other Republicans...

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I really wish I had the time and energy to get in on this grift. These dumbfucks are the easiest people on the planet to rob. I just need a truckload full of shitty, Chinese made MAGA merch and a stand at some county fair, and I’d be fucking rich. Unfortunately, I have no desire whatsoever to be associated in any way with these fascist shit stains. The money is just not worth having that stench rub off on me.

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