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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    Knew this was coming. Surprised it’s this blatant already, though.

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    The retards that fall at his feet even when he called them idiots will absolutely believe it’s true. We’re looking at a war brewing:

    One between common sense and abject ignorance.

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    should just respond with a AIGEN video of him reading the Epstein files and then look up at the camera to say, “I support pedophilia.”

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    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.

    This should be considered fraud. Making claims about a political opponent that are a reach is whatever, that’s politics. But making realistic footage of your opponent saying something they never said is just beyond the pale.

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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.

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      And endless number of types of prejudice and racism was forgotten and moved past because it became irrelevant as social classes transformed entirely. The ones that remain over time does so because of influential people who keep choosing to push for it.

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    The ad is raising questions

    The questions are “why didn’t anyone listen to people pointing out this obvious outcome years ago and make it illegal to do in this context”?

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    This is STUPID because Republicans are KNOWN to do Their Own Research TM and will KNOW that This is AI Generated! And BECAUSE of this Ad so FLAGRANTLY Spitting on the Intelligence of Republicans they’ll DENOUNCE Hilton! Vote OVERWHELMINGLY for Hilton!