To take president Donald Trump’s word for it, America’s cities are in ruins, forcing him to deploy federal troops to Portland, Washington DC, and Memphis.
There’s just one wrinkle — no one seems to be able to find any real evidence of the mass riots and anarchist violence that Trump and his supporters insist is destroying the nation. Luckily for them, that problem is easily solved with a little help from AI.
The phenomenon was first flagged by Gizmodo, which reported a concerning rise in AI-generated pro-Trump propaganda since the release of OpenAI’s Sora 2, an AI video generator capable of spitting out short, nearly photorealistic clips.
For example, Giz notes how one clip, showing a protestor harassing a US national guardsman before getting pepper sprayed, went viral on Instagram, not