{"id":186612,"date":"2025-10-08T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186612\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:14:10","slug":"fake-protest-videos-are-the-latest-ai-slop-to-go-viral-in-maga-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186612\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, OpenAI released Sora 2, the latest version of its AI video creator, along with a new Sora app for making and sharing those videos. The new tool has led to an explosion in realistic AI videos on social media, including plenty of fresh discussion about intellectual property<\/a> rights. But one of the oddest things to emerge with Sora 2 is a new crop of videos showing AI protesters.<\/p>\n

These aren\u2019t just any protest videos. Specifically, supporters of President Donald Trump appear to be making videos of protesters being brutalized by the federal agents and troops who have been sent to U.S. cities. Trump has most recently tried to deploy National Guard troops to Portland and Chicago, and while those deployments have been delayed by the courts, those cities are still crawling with ICE agents terrorizing immigrant communities.<\/p>\n

One of the new fake protester videos, which has over 40 million views<\/a> on Instagram, shows someone clad in black shouting in the face of a soldier dressed in fatigues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your name, soldier?\u201d the AI protester yells repeatedly. The text on the screen reads \u201cwait for it\u201d before the AI soldier sprays the protester with orange pepper spray, yelling back \u201cSergeant Pepper.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video has been shared on several platforms, including TikTok and X, where many people don\u2019t seem to understand it\u2019s AI. The actor James Woods, a Trump supporter who frequently shares right-wing memes on X, wrote on Tuesday about the video, \u201cCouldn\u2019t get better than this. Haiku-level brilliant.\u201d Many of the comments seem to be just as oblivious to the fact that it\u2019s AI.<\/p>\n

Another video that\u2019s become popular on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram, and X shows AI protesters shouting \u201cno queso, no cheese,\u201d apparently a racist riff on the common protest chant \u201cno justice, no peace.\u201d The AI protesters in the video are also sprayed with a chemical agent.<\/p>\n

The video has gotten over 1.5 million views on X alone, with the caption<\/a>, \u201cLmfao, that was beautiful and before you ask I voted 100 for this!!\u201d <\/p>\n

The phrase \u201cI voted for this\u201d has become a common thing for far-right supporters of Trump to say when something particularly brutal has happened to their political opponents.<\/p>\n

Lmfao, that was beautiful and before you ask I voted \ud83d\udcaf for this!! pic.twitter.com\/O6VLFZnw3i<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Steve2A\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8God\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Family\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Country\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@lakemonstercl1) October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

The Instagram version of the video includes the caption<\/a> \u201cLiberals acting like clowns \u2013 got treated like clowns by federal agents \u2013 goodbye \u2013 FAFO,\u201d an acronym for \u201cfuck around and find out.\u201d Some users on Instagram have pointed out that it\u2019s AI, but the account insists in the comments that it\u2019s real. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not real, obviously. And the big Sora watermark should be the clue to anyone who\u2019s familiar with OpenAI. But unfortunately, that kind of watermark isn\u2019t enough for most people these days to differentiate between fake and real content.<\/p>\n

The shorter Sora videos are also being compiled into larger compilations of AI-generated fakes, like in this one on X<\/a> that includes jokes about the protesters being paid. It\u2019s a common right-wing accusation that all the people protesting Donald Trump are actually paid to be there, often by liberal activists like George Soros.<\/p>\n

The most curious thing about all of these fake protester videos is that there are plenty of real videos to share. For example, a pastor in Chicago was shot in the head with pepper balls by agents last month. Rev. David Black was protesting outside an ICE facility near Chicago, Illinois, and was simply speaking peacefully when he was attacked.<\/p>\n

Another one of several videos showing protesters getting brutalized while doing nothing wrong was recently captured in Portland. A woman is seen simply talking with police before she\u2019s sprayed for absolutely no discernible reason.<\/p>\n

Unbelievable. Outside the Portland ICE facility, a man and a woman were standing and talking to a pair of cops with shields when one of them draws his pepper spray and unloads it into her face. She was still crying out in pain several minutes later and had to be taken away to get\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/2j2CVdO5rC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dispatches and drama from Seattle protest scene (@bennetthaselton) October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

But real videos of a pastor or a woman getting treated with unnecessary violence don\u2019t really fit the narrative that President Trump and his fascist goons are trying to sell. Trump has claimed the reason he\u2019s sending agents and troops to U.S. cities is that they\u2019re overrun with crime. And he just wants to restore law and order.<\/p>\n

In reality, violent crime is near a 50-year low<\/a>, and Trump is simply trying to strike fear into the hearts of ordinary Americans as his thugs disrupt countless lives. That disruption is having an economic impact, as restaurants in Chicago are comparing the loss of business<\/a> to the start of the covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s why we\u2019re seeing so many fake videos of protests on social media right now. They need a pretext to justify their brutal crackdown on working people. Trump himself seems to have been convinced to deploy the National Guard to Oregon because he saw too many old videos of Portland from the summer of 2020<\/a> on TV. And when it comes to Trump, he\u2019s pretty easy to fool.<\/p>\n

Trump has even shared an AI video of himself promoting a magical \u201cmed bed<\/a>\u201d that can cure all diseases. The president\u2019s Truth Social account deleted the video, but it\u2019s still not clear why he shared the conspiracy theory in the first place. It\u2019s entirely possible he thought it was real. We simply don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Remember when the president saw a photoshopped image of the letters \u201cMS-13\u201d on someone\u2019s hand back in April and insisted it was real<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump holds up an image of a hand that\u2019s been photoshopped to add the characters \u201cMS-13\u201d at the White House on April 18, 2025. Image: Truth Social <\/p>\n

Trump is not a smart man. And his followers are even dumber, as they spread AI slop far and wide, creating an alternative reality where sadistic troops dole out punishment to the left on American streets. Unfortunately, you don\u2019t need AI to see so much brutality right now. And if Trump has his way, you\u2019re going to see a lot more of it very soon.<\/p>\n