President Joe Biden announced he’s officially running for re-election on Tuesday. The Republicans had an offensive declaration ready for the occasion. The ad bashes Biden for his culpability in various domestic and foreign policy events, with stunning images of each.
One thing viewers should know: the images in the video are generated by artificial intelligence.
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The video from the Republican National Committee is titled “Beat Biden” and imagines a scenario in which Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris win re-election in 2024. The ad features entirely AI-generated images of Biden and Harris celebrating their victory on Election Day.
It then depicts a number of events imagined with AI-generated imagery that ostensibly resulted from Biden’s election victory, such as China’s invasion of Taiwan, the closing of hundreds of regional banks in the United States, and the crime-related shutdown of the city of San Francisco.
Republicans make no secret that the video was compiled entirely from images created by artificial intelligence platforms such as Midjourney and DALL-E. “An AI-generated look at the likely future of the country if Joe Biden is re-elected in 2024,” reads the video description on the GOP’s YouTube page. This appears to be the first time that a political ad has been created entirely using AI-generated imagery.
All this flashy use of AI seems to obviate the need to criticize the actual policies of the Biden administration. Instead, Republican criticism is about events that exist entirely in the imagination of party members.