08/30/2024

How AI-generated Memes are Changing the 2024 Election

Some supporters embrace AI for jokes, satire

Last week, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social an artificial intelligence-generated image of Taylor Swift in an Uncle Sam outfit, falsely claiming she had endorsed him. The image is clearly fake and was accompanied by other depictions, some also apparently AI-generated, of young women in T-shirts reading “Swifties for Trump.

In fact, Swift has not endorsed any candidate for president this year, and she endorsed Joe Biden over Trump in 2020.

Days later, Trump acknowledged the images weren’t real.

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