Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI

java-man 84 points 46 comments April 22, 2026
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java-man

Full title: "Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online". Despite MAGA fans making him rich, he still looks down on them, calling them “super-dumb.” He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said. “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people — like, super-dumb people. And they fall for it,” Sam said.

shevy-java

That explains the strategy used by the current US administration. They ask ChatGPT what to do. And this then happen. The output is stupid chaos. Can we sue the responsible administration? I mean globally - they need to pay for the damage here. Inflation already went up significantly in the EU. Why do Europeans have to suffer due to the orange AI king?

bettercallsalad

Our current president himself seems to be AI sometimes. Constantly improvising, strategizing by the moment, posting memes of him as messiah and what not. What a wild time to live in!

muyuu

some of these images are hilarious ngl that Indian guy understood the assignment

pixel_popping

Half of what we are reading is AI made, not much differences with pictures anyway.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849494

perarneng

If you apply 2nd order thinking to this story it's easy to see how dangerous AI in combination with social media is. It's worrying that so few care about this issue. How is it possible to have reliable elections or a functioning democracy if people are this easily manipulated and fooled. It was always easy to fool some people but social med powered by AI makes it ridiculously easy and cheap to do mass social engineering. One single person can affect so many potential voters.

tbrownaw

Is 10k followers a lot?

2OEH8eoCRo0

> trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation. Come on over you'll fit right in!

khasan222

I was just thinking the other day how ai will be way worse than social media in terms of influencing people. Before though I was thinking of times people have been convinced by chat bots they were god or a genius. Social media was so powerful because it convinced people their world view was popular and correct even if it definitely wasn’t, but at least then it was actually happening somewhere. This is just completely made up, to feed into people’s world view, and they don’t even have to find the perfect figure they can make one up. We’re definitely going to suffer a lot before it gets better. Interesting times we’re living in.

silexia

How many comments on this post were AI written?

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