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The account is an example of how artificial intelligence is being used to push political agendas in wartime

MAGA has been swooning over photos of a blonde U.S. Army soldier, walking defiantly alongside President Donald Trump to carry out the America First agenda. But there’s just one problem — she’s AI.

Images most likely generated by artificial intelligence depicted Jessica Foster wearing heels on a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz, posing for selfies with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and giving a speech at the president’s “Board of Peace” event earlier this year.

The account, which has since been taken down, gained more than one million followers since its mysterious creator started posting on it four months ago, The Washington Post reports.

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[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 30 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Does it really matter? These people were detached from reality long before AI was a thing. These are the people who swallowed horse dewormer to fight off a virus, stormed the capitol to hang their own party's VP over election fraud that never happened (but that they are now actively preparing themselves), and attacked a pizzeria to save children from the clutches of pedophiles (all the while ignoring their idol's ties to, and probably involvement with the crimes of, pedophile child trafficker Epstein).

We must come to grips with the fact that a significant part of the U.S. population is living in an alternative, media-generated universe. Baudrillard would be laughing his arse off if he could see it. The question is: how to deal with that.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

It seems you've thought deeply about this. I've done so as well.

It really fucking freaks me out that such a large chunk of our society is detached from objective, verifiable realty. A fair amount of what they believe is pants-on-head crazy vengeance fantasy. Another big chunk has spooky parallels to literal Nazi propaganda such as the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, it's so similar that it's obviously just borrowed. It's shocking that more people don't see it for what it transparently is.

I have no clue what can be done about it. I don't know how society heals this or reinforces the value of facts, sanity, and critical thinking.

You got anything? Any thoughts about where we go from here? How to unfuck their heads? Where does this end if they aren't deprogrammed? How long will we be trapped in this?

Genuine questions because I ain't got a fucking clue at this point.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

There almost definitely was voter fraud in 2020, but a different party was doing it than MAGA thinks. They got better at it in 2024.

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

I thought Kegsbreath declared women had no business being in the military? It's only for manly manly warrior men like himself?

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 16 points 14 hours ago

She's the perfect MAGA woman: She can't think for herself and only do what you tell her to. But nice of them to normalize playing with dolls for men.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

It's sad that we live in a world where this occurs.

I lay the blame squarely at the feet of corporate social media.

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 8 points 14 hours ago

“No she isn’t. She’s more of a man than you are”. -MAGAcucks

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago

LOL, "America First agenda".

Just what the holy fuck does that even mean according these dumbasses? Because Donvict and his pals are all about America LAST and themselves first.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 208 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (27 children)

What is a woman?

Is this a woman?

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 114 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This might have too many rights to be a woman.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Only 1 possible word though. The rest would be a man.

  • La computadora
  • El ordenador
  • El centro de datos
  • El servidor
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[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 day ago (9 children)

if you're stupid enough to believe this... you're stupid enough to be a Republican.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Wow she is farting super hard

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Ah yes, high-heeled shoes on a wet deck while leaning on the railing of a giant, moving ship. What could go wrong?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 68 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Where are my pantyhose! I'm going to war!

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 42 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Believing is one thing, but in what world do you join the army or support terrorism because there is some hot chick there?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Every us navy boat has a hot chick room what do you mean

[–] suckdings@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, not necessarily true any longer. The peak of the hot chicks room was in the late 70s and 80s. And those chicks are still in there, partying 24x7, serving their nation. Let's be honest, some of them... aren't really that hot any more. But there they are, and I thank them for their service all the same.

Edit: 24days? Ducking autocorrect. Unrelated, I miss UCB.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Magomra is still out there somewhere

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[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago

"We need more heels on the ground!"

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[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

Any MAGA who fell for this is beyond stupid (plus utterly unfamiliar with the military). Her uniform is wrong (skirt WAYYY too high). No one wears dress uniforms underway at sea in general, ESPECIALLY an enlisted soldier (who would likely be nowhere near a ship, even more especially in dress uniform). The ribbons on her dress uniform not only change from picture to picture, but are also the wrong size (sometimes) and not even actual US ribbons. I've never seen a regulation name tag say "US ARMY" and not a name. The undershirt in her camis isn't regulation. And this was just a quick look at the photos and only tangentially around the Army at work.

Oh and that's before the visible glitches because it's AI. This is laughably low effort.

EDIT: Damn, they didn't even use a real ship as the background. It's supposed to be a destroyer, and there are no US destroyers with an aft-facing bridge or part of the superstructure forward of the bridge windows. Just truly WTF

EDIT 2.0: I just saw a couple other photos because I got curious. One has her as a one-star general 😂, and a couple others have her wearing a (shitty looking) Combat Infantry Badge, which is only awarded for being in combat. So, I guess women CAN hack it in combat! Hegseth must be in shambles.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago

She's hot and it's pro-Trump. Why should they care if it's real or not if it tickles their...confirmation bias?

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How many of the accounts that followed this one were actually bot/“AI” accounts designed to do nothing but help boost shit like this to a place where the press reports on it?

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

AI sex on offer by someone representing a pedo. Makes sense.

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