{"id":626482,"date":"2026-05-06T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:16:09","slug":"its-no-mirage-kash-patel-posted-an-ai-slop-version-of-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626482\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s no mirage, Kash Patel posted an AI-slop version of “Sabotage”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s set it straight, this Watergate, NPR released a report today<\/a> accusing FBI director and world\u2019s best blinker Kash Patel of using AI to plagiarize the Beastie Boys\u2019 \u201cSabotage\u201d video for FBI propaganda. Yesterday morning, the embattled FBI director, fresh off suing The Atlantic for reporting on his alleged on-the-job drinking problem<\/a>, posted a video on X, the Everything App<\/a>, of clips of men and women doing FBI stuff, as uncredited news reports discuss the FBI\u2019s successes in fraud cases and the Beastie Boys\u2019 \u201cSabotage\u201d plays over the soundtrack. But in addition to the supposedly unlicensed use of the Beastie Boys\u2019 music, the clip also features images that appear pulled directly from the \u201cSabotage\u201d video.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith President Trump\u2019s leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast\u2014and we\u2019re not stopping,\u201d Patel captioned the tweet<\/a>, perhaps missing the irony of calling out fraud while pretty blatantly plagiarizing someone else\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seriously, it\u2019s no mirage, it\u2019s \u201cSabotage.\u201d NPR included a side-by-side video of the FBI\u2019s \u201cSabotage\u201d and Beastie Boys\u2019, which can be found here<\/a>, showcasing at least six instances where the FBI pulled shots directly from the Spike Jonze-directed music video. Though the outlet had a researcher from Bellingcat analyze the video\u2014they confirm it\u2019s \u201chighly likely\u201d that the video is AI because \u201cyou can even see some AI errors\u201d\u2014it\u2019s not entirely necessary. One look at the post would lead anyone with a working knowledge of the music video to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n

But claims of plagiarism are unlikely to do anything, seeing as Congress has taken its hands off the wheel when it comes to the administration. Even Patel, who\u2019s been dragged through the press for using government jets to fly his country-singing girlfriend to wrestling matches<\/a> and to party with the men\u2019s Olympic hockey team<\/a>, is unlikely to care. It\u2019s another example of the memetic warfare the White House has used to \u201cflood the zone with shit\u201d and start so many fires that no one has the energy to put out. Earlier this year, Sabrina Carpenter got into a weird and very mature fight with the U.S. government<\/a> over its use of her music for anti-immigrant propaganda. Months later, the President posted a video of himself driving a jet and dumping diarrhea on New York City, set to Kenny Loggins\u2019 \u201cDanger Zone.\u201d<\/a> Great reality we\u2019ve got ourselves here.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s set it straight, this Watergate, NPR released a report today accusing FBI director and world\u2019s best blinker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-626482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}