Our AI generated anti-icing videos are getting great treatment

At first glance, Quarrel in video It seems shocking. A New York City school principal, waving a bat, stops, masked Ice company agents From trying to enter the building, instead of violence, the meeting broke out with cheers from spectators. “Let me explain to you why they call me Bat Girl,” she told them. in Other clips Like this, a server throws a bowl of hot noodles at two officers dining in a Chinese restaurant, and Shop owner Reviews her Fourth Amendment rights. None of the confrontations ended in bloodshed.

It’s also clear that the videos, equal parts tense and bombastic, were created by artificial intelligence. They’re part of a constellation of anti-ICE AI content spreading across social media as the federal occupation of Minneapolis — part of the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants — led to the deaths of two U.S. citizens in January. both of them Renee Nicole Gooda 37-year-old mother of three, and Alex Pretty37, an intensive care unit nurse at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, was unarmed when government officials shot and killed her.

In America, The role of imaginationImagining a better world and putting the actions behind it to make it a reality is crucial in times of political turmoil. The videos, which have received millions of views on Facebook and Instagram, offer a mix of reactionary justice that imagines a digital multiverse where ICE agents are just like the rest of us: not above the rule of law.

Overall, anti-ICE videos are a way for people to lobby against Deformities AI creator Nicholas Arter says they were drawn by the Trump administration and MAGA influencers to justify their actions. “Over the past decade, social media has played this role by giving a voice to people who lack access to traditional media. It is not surprising that with artificial intelligence, another major technological shift, we are seeing similar patterns repeated, as people use available tools to express feelings, concerns or resistance.” But while they may feel cathartic, the videos themselves are also a kind of distortion. This could have consequences, whether by reinforcing the narrative that people of color are instigators, or making the public more skeptical of actual video evidence.

The account under the name Mike Wayne, whose owner has declined multiple requests, appears to be one of the most prolific posters in the genre. The account has uploaded more than 1,000 videos, mostly of people of color fighting ICE agents, to its Instagram account and Facebook Pages since Good was photographed on January 7. Tonally, the clips feel like digital counternarratives: a clip of ICE agents taking… Criminal walk,Latin woman Slapping Officer, or a A priest pushes masked officials From the doors of his church he declared: “I don’t know which god you worship, maybe an orange god, but my god is love.” (In fact, federal agents arrested nearly 100 clergy last week during a protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, from where religious leaders said an estimated 2,000 people were deported.)

The videos create an alternative timeline, where the passion and anger of Americans resisting the federal occupation of their cities does not cost lives — and accountability actually matters. One of Wayne’s Most viewed clips is an ICE agent fighting white passengers at a sporting event, a vision that seems so surreal that it has been viewed 11 million times in less than 72 hours. “Down with fascism,” says someone in the background. Humor also plays an important role in these fanfiction style videos. In a clip posted by the meme account RealStrangeAI, Four drag queens In neon wigs chase ICE officers through a St. Paul neighborhood.