China features in Republican AI-generated ad attacking ‘weakest president’ Joe Biden
- US President Joe Biden released a three-minute video on Tuesday to announce he will seek re-election in 2024
- Republicans responded with an AI-generated video to envision a dystopian future where ‘an emboldened China invades Taiwan’, and other crises
The Republican Party used artificial intelligence to generate an ad showing what it says would happen to the United States if President Joe Biden is re-elected in 2024.
The ad then becomes a message of hope encouraging Americans to defend the nation’s democracy.
“There’s simply nothing we cannot do if we do it together,” 80-year-old Biden says.
Previewing their own likely campaign messaging, Republicans responded with a 32-second video that offered a dystopian vision of what a second Biden term would entail, and asks “What if the weakest president we ever had was reelected?”
It shows realistic-looking, but fake, images of Taipei’s signature skyscraper collapsing as “an emboldened China invades Taiwan”, lines of grey-haired people standing outdoors over a voice-over about hundreds of banks collapsing, and an overhead image of tens of thousands of “migrants” entering the country illegally.