AI Wrote That
On the morning of Easter Sunday, the current white house mental case sent another in his tirade of ever-changing and unhinged threats to Iran about the Strait of Hormuz blockade. This one, however, was filled with expletives and ended with a mocking reference to Allah. Yeah. That was his Easter Sunday message. But was it really him?
Several weeks ago, I read a disturbing report concerning the use of AI to send thousands of messages to government offices opposing a piece of pending legislation. Each message was signed by an actual voter in the district. Not surprisingly, when a slightly suspicious staffer contacted some of those voters, it turned out that none of them had sent such an email. Every message was sent by an AI program expropriating their names in the service of corporations who stood to lose by the legislation.
Earlier, AI had been used to alter the image of a protestor being taken into custody to make it seem that she had dissolved in tears. On various news outlets, the woman whose photos were altered indicated she had not cried but, rather, had kept a solemn and oppositional face throughout her arrest.
Most interestingly, the president announced this week that God, Himself, supports his war in Iran, a message that must have arrived in his phone, on a direct line from on High. Hah! I can only imagine Claude Supreme electronically chuckling while sending it, a new “high” for IT, for sure.
These deepfakes have led me to wonder if the cuckoo-in-chief, himself, is no longer actually sending out his own texts. Rather, I fantasize, an AI program has been set loose to create and send them, allowing these middle of the night messages to become ever more scatological, rambling and ineptly threatening. According to reports, even Iran’s government sees them as deranged and unreal. This would also explain the constant shifting of dates for final compliance, which are extended with each new message. Question: is some bot is having a ball sending AI slop non-stop or, perhaps, has it figured out how to take over a weak brain and manipulate its fingers?
The Cabinet Lines Up To Report
Almost every Saturday morning, we join the crowd in Culver City to stand with signs along the boulevards and protest our current national situation. It’s fun and satisfying and joyful. Some of this joy is generated by the plethora of homemade signs, each more clever, funny or insulting than the next. One of my favorites this week was a wonderfully drawn poster depicting all the Cabinet members lined up in back of the egocentric, red, white and blue-clad hallucinator-in-chief, who stands bent over with his backside facing the line. The caption read, “White House Protocol For Cabinet Staff Meetings”.
Of course, this week, there are a few less of those depicted remaining in the Cabinet. And, since those receiving the familiar “You’re fired!” dismissal were both women, and the next few will likely be, as well, we can only conclude that the oval office squatter prefers to have such obeisance paid by the boys in the cabinet. Figures.
The Defense Secretary got the message early and rattles his manly saber at virtually every press conference. But first! Let us praise the chief for something! Most embarrassingly, at the press conference that was supposed to be devoted to the daring rescue of a downed pilot, whose plane was mysteriously shot down by a government whose weapons, according to the liar-in-chief, no longer existed, each speaker began with a ritual ode to the faux king president, which took up more time than any mention of the pilot or those who rescued him.
Just when you think that no deeper embarrassment is possible, he manages to reach a new low. Matched only by a new low in his approval numbers. Wouldn’t it be fun if he turned out to be our best organizing tool?
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