Record money was spent on AI-generated political ads before Tuesday's midterms. Platforms are now on alert. Alert is a strong word for companies that spent years asleep at the switch.
Slopaganda. Someone got paid to coin that word. Probably more than you made last quarter.
The pitch is simple. Campaigns used to lie with actors and a budget. Now they lie with a laptop and a free trial. Democracy has been streamlined.
Internet platforms say they are watching closely. Meta. YouTube. X. Watching closely is what you do at a car crash. It is not what you do to prevent one.
Voters will see a candidate say something he never said. Standing in a place he never stood. Holding a baby that does not exist. The baby has seven fingers on one hand. The baby tests better than the candidate.
You, the retail trader, will not be fooled by any of this. You are the same person who bought a stock because a man with a ring light and a rented Lamborghini said it was going to the moon. You have been trained by experts.
The ads will run. The platforms will label some of them. Labels work great. Nobody has ever scrolled past a warning label in their life.
Wednesday, the ads vanish and the winners claim the voters were informed. Your portfolio will do whatever it was going to do anyway.
Fake candidates, fake voices, fake crowds. The only real thing in this election is your confidence that you can tell the difference.
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