AI slop is infesting politics and social media seemingly more every day. But I think the grossest recent example was the ad that we showed you earlier this week, sexualizing Representative Ilhan Omar and AOC. Here's a brief reminder of what that was. [00:00:25] This is right. Yeah, so a couple days ago I talked about how it's absolutely grotesque to pretend that Thomas Massey is having sex with those two Congresswoman, let alone to then transition to Donald Trump, [00:00:42] the guy mostly known for his affairs. So I was enraged by it, but you know who else was? Weirdly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who posted on social media this message, which I largely grew with and still think could have been about one fifth as long. She says this fake AI campaign [00:00:59] ad lying about Thomas Massey is a violation of the Take It Down Act that first lady Melania Trump championed. We voted for and President Trump signed into law nearly a year ago. Thomas Massey never dying to held hands with or intimately engaged with AOC and Ilhan Omar. Well, that [00:01:15] is objectively true. That is a very strange way to phrase it in that but she's not wrong. The law makes it illegal to knowingly publish or threaten to publish intimate images of minors or non consenting adults, including AI generated imagery. It mandates that websites and social media platforms remove this content within 48 hours of being notified by a victim. Thomas [00:01:34] Massey should sue the three Israeli first billionaires funding woke Eddie's campaign. That's guy that it's in support of trying to take out Thomas Massey. And everyone involved in making this fake video and everyone who puts it out. Thomas Massey has voted with Trump 91 % of the time except when he's pushing war, protecting Epstein pedophiles, violating your freedoms with warrantless [00:01:53] spying FISA, or overspending your money into further ruinous debt. The only record Ed Galrahan has is being too timid, too weak, and too afraid to debate Thomas Massey and refuse to show up at campaign debates in the district he's trying to get elected in. Take it down. Well, she's right, it should be taken down. It's weird that it wasn't, except that it's Twitter. What [00:02:12] do they care about the law? What do they care? The platform is designed for AI misinformation. They're not going to set a precedent of responding to serious concerns about it. And also take it down is nowhere near enough until these people are financially ruined for doing this. If not [00:02:30] thrown in prison, they're never going to stop doing it. You have to send a strong signal. You have to set a strong example. And right now we are doing that but we're doing in the opposite direction where we just ignore this stuff. We just let it happen. We say, well, there's a lot of ads out there, or I'm sure somebody will know that it's fake, or social [00:02:50] media should take care of it. So long as that is our collective approach to this, they're gonna keep doing it. They're gonna get more more brazen, and we're already seeing that in this cycle. Sharon, what do you think? Yeah, and it's effective. This dumbing down, this numbing to what's really going on that can attack people, destroy their lives, and people [00:03:08] in the public eye. Normally, there's a high standard there. Dare I say it, Marjorie Taylor Greene is right and she got there even with her lengthy post. I also was thinking as you reading that she's going to make an excellent perhaps person to rile up the Democratic [00:03:25] base and go on the campaign trail selectively perhaps with some people if she keeps this up. In this case, it's Massey, but who knows? I don't think she will go on the campaign trail with say Omar in the future, but she might. be able to use these powers of hers for some [00:03:42] good coming up in the midterms, let's say. Yeah, I don't know that Omar would want that necessarily. uh But look, for some reason Marjorie has some people on the right that follow her whatever and certainly will when she inevitably comes back into politics, which is definitely going [00:03:59] to happen. That's what this is about. um I want as many conservatives as possible to be on the right side of this issue. That doesn't mean that we pretend that Marge is reasonable or sane on topics where she's not. But in this particular case, I care about the insidious [00:04:15] corrosive effect that AI is having on politics. So good, get people whipped up in a frenzy. They should be in one, particularly because this is not the only example of this happening recently. At least 15 campaign ads featuring AI generated content have run since November. Most of them are wildly disingenuous. uh Most of them, it's not labeled. And most of them, [00:04:37] is pointless to say that a reasonable person would know that it's not real. Clearly, we don't have the capacity to tell real from fake, okay? We can't even do it among people. People think that Donald Trump is authentic. They think that Ted Cruz is a straight shooter. How do [00:04:53] you think they're going to be able to tell whether Grok generated an image? But as one example, in the state's gubernatorial race, campaign of Republican primary candidate Brian Shortsleeve created an AI-generated radio ad. sounds like Democratic Governor Maura Healey using Healey's voice to say things that she has never actually said, including about the state's economy. [00:05:12] The clip does not contain an explicit AI disclaimer. Instead, the caption says it's what her radio ads would sound like if she was honest, which is not the same thing as making clear that it's AI generated. And by the way, I am not a person that thinks it would be okay if you [00:05:28] let people know it's AI generated. It shouldn't be allowed to exist regardless of being uh labeled or not. But in this case, look at how fast we went from, well, he said it in a tweet and we're just making his voice say it. So it's sort of true. Now they're not even doing [00:05:47] that. They're literally just making up fake things to damage them. That's not even the only AI generated ad in that campaign. Short Sleeve also has videos depicting Healy as the Grinch. another of her hissing with red eyes, neither of which contained explicit AI disclaimers. [00:06:03] Now those probably people would know are not real, but some people, Alex Jones might be confused, so I still wouldn't allow it. And if it's so important to you that you make her the Grinch, pay an artist to do it. I'm sure we've had thumbnails where Donald Trump was [00:06:20] the Grinch, and you know what we did? We had Norma make it, okay? A talented person who can make these images in Photoshop. It's not a revolutionary technology, okay? It's been around for a while. You don't have to give everything over to AI. And if the only way that you can [00:06:36] win is by lying through artificial intelligence, you probably shouldn't be in elected office anyway. Any further thoughts, No, I'll say this only because Yaz isn't on today. Taylor Swift was a good example of somebody who's trying to protect her image. because of everything [00:06:53] that's going around with AI and her voice. It's a real problem. This fake stuff, this taking people out, and the only recourse you have is to try to clean it up afterwards. So there's that. Yeah. a final note, as producer Mike is pointing out, I don't know how I glossed over [00:07:11] this. He's quite active. His last name is Short Slave. I don't know why, but that... Yeah. No. Yeah. you or you AI? that's your last name is short. What did one of your ancestors who's [00:07:26] so committed to never covering up his forearms that they're like, yeah, that's going to be, that's you now. That's who you are. What is going on in America?