«Here is Amy Kremer, a National Committeewoman for the Republican National Convention and cofounder of Women for Trump, saying that she knows the image is fake but simply does not care:
“Y’all, I don’t know where this photo came from and honestly, it doesn’t even matter. It is seared into my mind forever,” she posted. “There are people going through much worse than what is shown in this pic. So I’m leaving it because it is emblematic of the trauma and pain people are living through right now.” Kremer’s sentiment is one that was first expressed in a now-deleted tweet that had millions of views. That tweet contained a text message screenshot in which the person’s relative texted them the image of the girl holding a dog crying. The tweeter responded with “that’s AI,” and the person’s relative responded with something to the effect of “I don’t care.”
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I have documented, at length, that a lot of AI slop is being generated by people all over the world for the express purpose of going viral and making money. While writing about Facebook’s AI slop, I spoke to an Indian teenager who lives in a small village and, unsatisfied with the virality of more mundane AI-generated images he had created, told me he was going to get into making AI content about American news so he could make more money.»
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