Who is behind creepy A.I. images of young women ranting about migrants?

[Warmlight1]

Why are bad AI images of angry women ranting about migrants popping up.everywhere ?
I am inviting ideas as to by whom and where these are being produced
I've always wished more of my female acquaintances and friends would talk about politics- but voices of identifiably young women are less common and this isn't in my experience what they start saying when they talk.
So who has an interest in creating these images and what would the production process be? Since they are clearly AI, is the purpose to put words in the mouths of young women? Or to further radicalise young men?
And isn't it creepy?
What do you think?
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14s2XWUPGD1/

Taking a wild guess, Russia.

He does say that but then mentions a variety of other locations. Bearing in mind there's money going into our politics from a variety of other places. I suppose I'm wondering who internationally being that Reform are so invested in the very subject matter and how it all links up. Russia proliferate images that directly echo Reforms messages? Are reforms donors linked? What about the lot in Cambridge?

Posts on Facebook are very easy to monetise, more so than on other platforms, and lots of "likes" and reactions on a post coming from the US/UK generates more than lots of likes coming from poorer countries. Basically because advertiser's will pay more for Western eyes. Because of this, posting things that get the attention (negative or positive) of Western Facebook users is a fairly lucrative career for people in countries with lower wages. Eg Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka etc. This has been the case for a while but AI slop has lowered the barrier of entry and made it easier to mass produce. You don't need in depth knowledge of the social issues annoying UK people, or how to make it realistic. You can just fire a load of things at the wall and zero in on what is popular. AI does the hard work of making the image look realistic. You don't even need to speak good English anymore.

Of course you can generate clicks in lots of ways - heartwarming shorts of kittens saving puppies from fire etc. But stuff that makes people angry gets more attention. And stuff about migration/benefits gets attention from both sides -peoole saying they agree and also being angry AND people saying this is nonsense. Attractive young women also get more clicks. And AI AND the slop farmers learn from other things getting popular so you end up with very repetitive posts. And if one thing is doing well you repost it multiple times with slight changes so you get different attractive ladies saying the same thing.

Add to that the fact there likely are people trying to put their thumbs on the algorithm to push a particular narrative and you get what you get. The irony is the people posting this stuff often don't care themselves but if it's more worthwhile to post racist stuff they will. Which then leads to the odd scenario of people in far away countries, often themselves Muslim, generating masses of content about how foreigners and Muslims are a problem so as to make an income from white British "patriots" who hate foreigners.

It's a strange world.

ETA: it's not just people in other countries. But where wages are lower it makes more financial sense as a job/side hustle than in the UK. To grift in the UK you need to build a public persona really the AI vids alone won't generate enough

So actually campaigning for right wing parties could now involve cultivating and harvesting these avenues and generating more of it locally as well?
I mean if people are already doing it they just need a bit of direction and maybe enhanced payment, right?

The people generating stuff locally tend to be filming themselves eg talking in a car or getting into "confrontations" with the police or those of an opposing viewpoint. That gets them a higher profile which gives them more opportunities to monetise themselves or gain publicity if looking for attention. But there was that Crewkerne gazette guy who made a profile posting "hilarious" AI skits on politicians and then got given the chance to run for the Conservatives of the back of that and then turned out to have said kind of Nazi things. I am sure there are local people posting that stuff. But it's less profitable to do here compared to other countries when you take COL into account.

The other part of it is paying people to make clips of your "best bits" edited to hit the algorithms and go viral. Or paying bots to boost content. And that's where it gets really dodgy because really paying to boost content should come under the limit for election spending. But when it's someone else boosting the content (or the site owner) then I don't think that is considered payment in kind. So someone like Musk could in theory put loads of weight behind someone's posts on X, or spend a lot of money for bots to boost YouTube content. And that isn't taken into account at all.

And of course there was Cambridge Analytics.

You could directly pay someone in another country to make content and maybe that happens. But you don't have to. Instead spending on bot accounts that are coded to boost certain types of content indirectly has the same effect- the content creator financially benefits from posts that gets lots of engagement, paying bot farms to give certain types of posts a lot of engagement will incentivise creators to create more of those posts. Even if they don't care at all about the intricacies of the politics discussed.

I can’t access that clip

But there are lots of accounts making money doing this. It doesn’t need to be linked up to a political movement. It just makes money now to post the stuff that goes viral and the creators make money out of it. It’s so awful - damages society and the Internet is going to become unusable

didn’t they interview one of these guys on BBC or sky or something and he actually just said it was a bit of fun? he means he makes money but he doesn’t give a shit that it’s upsetting and damaging for other people.

A lot of it comes from deliberate strategies from state actors, Russia and Iran being probably the most intensive but by no means the only ones. It's not only right-wing messaging that gets generated as the aim is to stoke division more than necessarily a single message. But it is predominantly stuff that will appeal to right-wing audiences.

Some comes from home-grown racists who think it's fine to deliberately lie as a means to achieving their desired ends. These may or may not receive money from external groups.

The rest comes from people generating whatever gets the most clicks as it's purely an apolitical money-making exercise for them. Race-baiting content can be wildly popular, as can stuff with cute animals, "1 upvote = 1 prayer, 1 retweet = 10 prayers" schlock and so on.