Washington (AP) – Here he is portrayed in his six months in office, Carved and braveas powerful as that country. Here he is Star Wars Jedi Wielding the Patriot’s red lightsabers around, saving the galaxy from evil forces. Here he takes over Gaza and turns the strip into a completely luxurious resort His own golden statue.
You can do anything, you were told that you are probably growing. doctor. Astronaut. Perhaps one day, the president. But even the US CEO, the leader of the free world, frames themselves as something more grander, so that they are not entirely themselves.
About social media accounts Donald Trump And little by little, his second term administration, the new official image of the president is coming into the forefront.
Signs of the times, certainly – the appeal of rethinking oneself artificial intelligence It drips from us from everyday citizens. Are you bored with your selfies? Join Viral Trends: Image generators and chatbots that can be transformed into Renaissance-style paintings. Studio Ghibli Character Or an action figure with box art and accessories.
Artificial images are nothing new to Trump. Initial targets for AI-generated simulations Someone who later misused technology His 2024 Campaign for the Presidency. “It works both ways,” the Republican president said. Press conference Early this month. “If something happens, it’s really bad. Maybe we have to blame the AI.”
AI images of Trump posted by him and his team choose alternatives. Pope Francis dies, Trump He jokes to a reporter who wants to be Pope. A week later, he is Images generated by AI He posted that it was reposted by the White House. Trump beats himself to the king with the truth social post in February, and AI will leave him alone X post Less than an hour later, by the White House.
Artificial objects arrive in the normal style of playing cards – Brassy, unashamed, and attention-grabbing – And it’s square in heavy meme posts from his social media team, and it promises to continue. Since his inauguration date, White House officials told NBC News, the administration’s official social media accounts have grown with over 16 million new followers across the platform.
The White House is aware of the appeal. I posted it on my X account in July. “I’m not saying you can’t post Banger memes anywhere in the Constitution,” a photo of the White House lawn sign attached to the post parody of the opposition: “Ohm, did the White House really post this?”
Behind the chief commander who wants to create an AI self – not uncommon in itself, but the infantry of the official communication channel is ready. And we, people, have no choice but to adjust.
Emotions don’t care about your facts
Like many on the internet these days, Trump’s AI portraits are ready for people to respond, says Evan Konog, political historian and author of “Power and Story: How the clever Presidential Tale from George Washington to George W. Bush, Demonstrated Political Success.”
“By the time you saw it, you knew it, and of course it’s effectiveness,” Kornug said. “There’s no effort needed for the people who produced it, especially those who are consuming it.”
The expressiveness of political imagery has long been understood by politicians and their detractors, regardless of the truth of their message.
President William Henry Harrison’s log cabin and hard cider campaign symbols represent him as “the man of the people.” He helped him win the 1840 election. “Let’s stop those terrible pictures!” Tweed once said, or the story was.
Decades have seen the birth of photography, film, television, the internet, computer printers, image editing software and digital screens, and have now been able to shrink to fit in your pocket, creating, manipulating and manipulating images.
In contrast, today’s generative AI technology offers greater realism, functionality and accessibility to content creation than ever before, says AI expert Henry Ajder. Of course, it goes without saying that the power of infinite automated possibilities.
Past presidents “have actually had to fight in the war to run as war heroes,” says Kornug. Now they just generate an image of themselves as one. On the horse – or no, the battlefield. The American flag waving behind him, eagle spikes.
Images of Trump’s AI shared by him and his administration pursue the president’s equally heroic vision. Kornug added that efficacy – he and the country – is a consistent theme.
Indeed, generative AI allows people to use such technology to explain and communicate their own “fantasy life” or cartoonish versions, thus exposing an intimate inner world that is perhaps unpleasant, says Mitchell Stevens, author of “The Rise of Images, The Fall of the Word.”
But it can satisfy the opposite desires just as easily. That is to describe or reinforce subjective concepts of reality.
“So many people share AI-generated content, which is obviously fake, but is mostly seen as a revelation of someone,” Ajder says. This content cultivates the idea of tweeting, “We all know they really like this.”
“So even if people know it is fake, they still think it is kind of a reflection of the truth and satisfying it.
Commenter takes up the mantle
The lack of subtlety in Trump’s own AI image helps explain their consistent virality.
Commenters can lament the end of the president’s courtesy (“I never thought I’d see the day the White House was a joke. This is so embarrassing”) or taste the highly reaction of them (“Watching this exploded was a treatment”).
Other reactions remain unconvinced, even from the president’s base (as one X user under Trump’s White House Post was grasped as Pope, “I voted for you, and this is strange and creepy.
But that is a tradition for Trump, with no problem cashing out the currency of our attention economy.
“In his first administration, he used Twitter in ways the president didn’t have,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project, an organization that promotes transitions between presidents. “What they’re doing in this administration is to go further with that, as there’s more to be done online,” or, as one Reddit user mentioned to the president, “the best troll.”
Does Trump really think he should be the Pope? Does the White House really think he is king? Accuracy is not a point, and not for those who frequently arbitrate what counts as truth. Trump’s AI use sticks to familiar recipes of bait.
“It’s fine,” Trump said in May.
“We have to have a little fun, right?”
