Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is targeting Spanish-speaking voters with an AI-generated ad that shows a caricature of a trans girl playing soccer against high school girls. The ad even features an AI-generated version of his Democratic opponent, Xavier Becerra, taking a policy position that he does not take in real life.

The ad is raising questions about how AI is used both to create problems that don’t exist – the ad used generative AI to portray the trans girl as a much older man pushing cis girls around in a high school soccer game, which doesn’t happen in real life – and to put words in political opponents’ mouths.

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    When they put them all in camps and move on to the next group.

    It will never stop. Control of sexuality is a fundamental aspect of authoritarian systems, because it creates (a) blackmail (b) transgressive opportunities for the elites © sexual frustration that can be weaponized.