{"id":243814,"date":"2026-01-17T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:01:08","slug":"slain-minneapolis-mom-renee-good-is-being-turned-into-bizarre-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243814\/","title":{"rendered":"Slain Minneapolis Mom Renee Good Is Being Turned into Bizarre AI Slop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) continues to lay siege to Minneapolis<\/a>, with other blue cities<\/a> around the country bracing for similar crackdowns by an increasingly punitive<\/a> Trump<\/a> administration, many have been left to make sense of chaotic protests and state violence through what they see on the internet. And since the fatal shooting<\/a> of 37-year-old mother Renee Good by an ICE agent on Jan. 7 sent shock waves through the Twin Cities region<\/a>, a lot of that material has been AI<\/a>-generated, leading to conflicting narratives of a death that has escalated political tensions nationwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the immediate aftermath, of course, both MAGA<\/a> and staunchly anti-Trump social media users attempted to use AI to their best advantage. The far right circulated artificial images<\/a> that appeared to show an overhead view of Good\u2019s car on the street where she was confronted by ICE, which made it appear as if she was trying to run over Jonathan Ross, the federal agent who killed her. They also disseminated a phony video<\/a> and pictures<\/a> that purported to show Good and her wife Becca Good celebrating the assassination of the conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk<\/a> last September. Meanwhile, before Ross had been publicly identified, some ICE critics asked AI models to \u201cunmask\u201d him based on footage in which the lower half of his face was covered. Since the technology is fundamentally unable to perform this task<\/a>, it merely produced faces at random, sowing further confusion.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut not all of this slop was purely for the purposes of misinformation, or misguided efforts to expose Ross. At least one of the MAGA loyalists arguing that Good\u2019s death was her own fault went to an image generator with a sickening request for a depiction of Ross kneeling on her neck<\/a> in a pose that recalled former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s murder of George Floyd<\/a>, which set off massive demonstrations against racial police brutality in 2020. Someone used Grok<\/a>, the model developed by Elon Musk<\/a>\u2018s xAI and integrated into his social platform X, to deepfake Good\u2019s bloodied corpse in a bikini<\/a>. (Access to the bot was restricted<\/a> last week after it was enlisted to create thousands of nonconsensual sexualized images<\/a>, and xAI later announced that it had implemented measures<\/a> to prevent Grok from editing pictures of real people to swap in more revealing clothes.) A particularly bizarre Grok video<\/a> showed a woman meant to resemble Good being shot in her car and tumbling out of the driver\u2019s seat into the fires of hell.<\/p>\n

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\n\tStill others evidently sought to find common political ground with AI renderings of Good alongside slain pro-Trump martyrs. There was, for example, a doctored picture<\/a> of Good next to a smiling Ashli Babbitt<\/a>, the U.S. Air Force veteran and QAnon<\/a> conspiracist fatally shot by a United States Capitol Police officer as she stormed the the\u00a0House Speaker\u2019s Lobby during the Jan. 6 insurrection<\/a> to overturn Trump\u2019s 2020 election loss. The two are superimposed against an illustration of the gates of heaven. An X user, meanwhile, suggested painting a mural of Good and Babbitt together on a building in Minneapolis, mocking up the idea with AI<\/a> and titling the proposed portrait \u201cA Friendship Forged in Winter Fire.\u201d He added: \u201cOne example of what AI is good for, making politically harmonious murals human artists would refuse to make.\u201d In the theoretical mural, Good carries what looks like a Trump sign, though it is partially obscured.<\/p>\n

\n\tGood could also be found in heaven with Charlie Kirk, in AI-rendered fantasies that imagined them as former political opponents who had reconciled. Multiple artificial images that made the round on Facebook<\/a> and X show them in the afterlife; in one iteration<\/a>, Good and Kirk hold up signs saying \u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve it\u201d and \u201cShe didn\u2019t deserve it,\u201d respectively. Another version<\/a> has Good holding a sign that reads \u201cI don\u2019t agree with him,\u201d while Kirk\u2019s sign says \u201c\u2014but I don\u2019t hate her.\u201d The series of pictures included images of Good and Kirk embracing<\/a> and even kissing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf this content was meant to instill a heartwarming message about coming together despite contrasting beliefs, not everyone deployed it that way. A conservative influencer with a large following on Facebook shared an AI-generated picture<\/a> of Good and Kirk hugging with this caption: \u201cGuys I\u2019m with Charlie now and my TDS is cured. Trump was right about everything! I\u2019m so so sorry.\u201d (\u201cTDS\u201d is shorthand for \u201cTrump derangement syndrome,\u201d a MAGA term of disparagement for liberals who oppose the president\u2019s agenda.) The same commentator elsewhere posted an edit<\/a> of Good and her wife as the cowboy lovers from Brokeback Mountain, retitled Fuck Around & Find Out Mountain.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat all these slop examples have in common, regardless of the source or their particular sympathies, is that each is a transparent play for engagement. Whether deliberately provocative or squishy and sentimental, they elicit a strong negative or positive reaction, depending on the viewer. To bad actors, the grim reality on the ground in Minneapolis is simply fodder for low-effort memes and propagandistic distortions, curated for clicks and boosted visibility.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore and more, it seems that a deluge of such brain rot<\/a> is the internet\u2019s default response to disturbing, consequential events. Instead of facing up to a dire situation, we bury it in content that precludes any serious reckoning. Which, in turn, may only dull our response to the next crisis. You can call it a race to the bottom, but it\u2019s hard to imagine the possibility of sinking any lower. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to lay siege to Minneapolis, with other blue cities around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,62540,343,344,4073,85,46,60630,126105,125],"class_list":["post-243814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-slop","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ice","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-minneapolis","tag-renee-nicole-good","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}