Defense Department Posts Video Littered With AI-Generated Images to Tout High Military Recruitment

Ahmad Austin Jr. Aug 15th, 2025, 5:36 pm

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A video used by the Department of Defense to boast of high recruitment numbers turned out to be full of AI-generated images.

On Thursday morning, the DOD’s Rapid Response X/Twitter account posted a clip from Matt Gaetz’s show on OAN. In the clip, DOD Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson elaborated on the “fantastic” levels of recruiting the U.S. military has enjoyed since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term:

Happy to be with you and happy to highlight this incredible success that we are seeing across our armed forces — women in particular. These numbers are fantastic. Under the previous administration, we had about

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