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highplainsdem

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8. You could do tens of thousands more AI slop pictures like that, none of which are 1/10 as effective as
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 05:40 PM
Dec 25

Luckovich cartoons, because there's no talent and no effort behind AI slop.

MAGAts can churn out similar slop from their side. Trump loves AI slop, as 404 Media reminded people today, reposting an article from May.

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-presidency/

Trump has found an aesthetic to define his second term: grotesque AI slop.

Over the weekend, the Trump administration posted at least seven different pieces of AI generated or AI altered media, ranging from Trump imagining himself as a pope and a Star Wars Jedi (or Sith?) to Obama-esque “Hope” posters featuring people the administration has deported.

This has become the Slop Presidency, and AI-generated images are the perfect artistic medium for the Trump presidency. They're impulsively created, grotesque, and low-effort. Trumpworld’s fascination with slop is the logical next step for a President that, in his first term, regularly retweeted random memes created by his army of supporters on Discord or The Donald, a subreddit that ultimately became a Reddit-clone website after it was banned. AI allows his team to create media that would never exist otherwise, a particularly useful tool for a President and administration that has a hostile relationship with reality.

Trump’s original fascination with AI slop began last summer, after he said legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were “eating the cats…they’re eating the pets” in his debate with Kamala Harris. The internet’s AI slop factories began spinning up images of Trump as cat-and-dog savior. Since then, Trump and the administration have occasionally shared or reposted AI slop. In his first week in office, Trump shared an AI-generated “GM” car image that was promoting $TRUMP coin. “What a beautiful car. Congrats to GM!,” he posted.

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We're not going to outslop the MAGAts. Our advantage is reality. Producing AI slop is a waste of time and human energy, as well as a waste of water and electricity. And it's an insult to the human artists whose work was stolen to train the AI. It sends the message that Democrats don't care about that theft. That's a bad message.

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I didn't see the USS Ped a File. nt doc03 Dec 25 #1
Here's the Ped-O-File class one: Justice matters. Dec 25 #11
LOL LetMyPeopleVote Dec 25 #13
Thanks for this! ShazzieB Sunday #24
Thank you, added to my fabulous and growing collection ;-) diane in sf Dec 25 #2
Wow. Just WOW!!! PCIntern Dec 25 #3
They're way too nice for him.. chouchou Dec 25 #4
I think this thread paints a pretty good picture of tRump's legacy. nt BootinUp Dec 25 #5
I am beginning to think bucolic_frolic Dec 25 #6
Trump's Fleet IcyPeas Dec 25 #7
You could do tens of thousands more AI slop pictures like that, none of which are 1/10 as effective as highplainsdem Dec 25 #8
I think there was definitely some human imagination behind some of these. ShazzieB Sunday #25
I don't understand people who don't consider it too unethical to use because of the intellectual property highplainsdem Sunday #26
Would you be willing to consider posting links to articles about the issues you mention? ShazzieB Sunday #28
I've posted hundreds of OPs, mostly with articles, about AI here over the last 3 years, ever since highplainsdem Sunday #30
And btw, all people have imaginations. Imagination alone isn't creativity. If people don't have the highplainsdem Sunday #29
USS A**hole. surfered Dec 25 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Mblaze Dec 25 #10
Here are some additional prototypes or concepts LetMyPeopleVote Dec 25 #12
Where's The Golden Fleecer"? BattleRow Dec 25 #19
Germany... Godot51 Dec 25 #14
Whatever form it takes, it's still a target. cloudbase Dec 25 #15
I saw a prototype the other day. cab67 Dec 25 #16
Fleet Enema oasis Dec 25 #17
There is no precedent for any class of ships being named after a living president FakeNoose Dec 25 #18
No American president has ever named ships or institutions after himself--until now. LetMyPeopleVote Dec 26 #20
New battleships named after Trump are 'bomb magnets' -- and will never sail: expert LetMyPeopleVote Dec 26 #21
Top secret video of Trump's new fleet. Just released on Signal app. LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #22
I will admit that the clown ship in the video would give me pause in an attack... Hugin Sunday #23
The one with Vance on the bow. Permanut Sunday #27
These are examples of good use of AI -- making fun of Trump. Intractable Sunday #31
Satire, I don't think that word means what you think it means. I'll help. Ranting Randy Sunday #32
Is there something wrong with you? Intractable Sunday #33
I'm surprised you only found literary definitions. ShazzieB Sunday #34
Thanks for the clarification Ranting Randy Monday #36
USS Pedophile LetMyPeopleVote Monday #35
LOL LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #37
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