“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”

An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online. The video is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the “Explosive News Team” and is just the latest in a long line of AI-generated LEGO videos aimed at mocking Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. LEGO-themed propaganda isn’t new and the Iranian video plays on familiar wartime propaganda themes. What’s different in 2026 is speed and scale.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    So… the American video showing Game of Thrones and Braveheart… those are not even American.

    I’m not supporting Iran, but some of those videos were fucking hilarious, the lie button one was so fucking stupid, the American ones are incredibly cringe.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    8·
    1 day ago

    Since I won’t touch corporate AI video slop models with a 3-metre pole, I’m glad there’s someone with the motivation and wherewithal to fight slop with slop, because the MAGA stuff is the gaudiest nonsense bullshit I’ve ever seen.