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If you are outraged by Trump’s use of AI and deepfakes, don’t be – that’s exactly what he wants | Sophia Smith Galer

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Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of using AI in images showing a large crowd greeting her at an airport.

Trump has also recently shared AI-generated images of himself, Elon Musk and Taylor Swift .

But it seems that Trump isn’t trying to pass the images off as real: he thinks this is him trying to be funny.

Trump ’s AI posts are best understood not as outright misinformation intended to be taken at face value but as part of the same intoxicating mix of real and false information that has always characterised his rhetoric.

In his world, AI is just another tool to do this. Trump is n’t interested in telling the truth.