President’s very realistic AI slop video, posted to his official Truth Social account, forces Pentagon to step in with a denial

The Defense Department was forced on Monday to deny the U.S. had struck Iran’s main petroleum export facility after President Donald Trump posted a fake but very realistic AI-generated video showing a purported attack by American forces.

The video, posted to the president’s Truth Social account, appears to show oil storage tanks and refineries erupting in flames from the perspective of someone filming from inside a helicopter above the carnage, with an accompanying message describing the scene as “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens” and signed as “President DJT.”

But a U.S. official said no such attack had taken place, with Kharg Island not being among the locations targeted overnight in what has been the first exchange of fire between American and Iranian forces in weeks.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Yes, War Games is about the dangers of automating everything (a relatively lighthearted precursor to Terminator), but Dr. Strangelove is what happens when literally crazy people are in charge.

      • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        11 days ago

        but Dr. Strangelove is what happens when literally crazy people are in charge.

        Yeah, crazy people. Neurotypicals would never act like that. No siree. Now where did I leave my gun, I’ve got to defend my country by strafing some civilians from a helicopter. It would be unpatriotic not to.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Even if you’ve never seen it, you’ve likely seen bits. Slim Pickens riding a nuke to detonation. Peter Sellers is good in almost everything he was in. And Kubrick, anything Kubrick is worth watching at least once. Full Metal Jacket, the shining, clockwork orange, 2001.