A man who looks like Musk, only 20 years younger and better rested, eats Hummus before another cut to the belly dancers with large breasts, forming hips and beards. This string sequence brings us to the choir: “Trump Gaza, a bright/golden future, a new light/party and mint dance, the act is made/Trump Gaza, n. 1.”
While the choir repeats itself, we enter the “after” part of the point. A child walks along a shining boulevard, with a mylar -shaped mylar ball in his hand. The same president chatted a younger woman in a casino. Money falls from heaven. The aforementioned golden statue is located at the center of a busy roundabout, and Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drink cocktails with shirts from a swimming pool. The whole thing is the main generative IA, it is with competence with competence, more technically competent than what most people could produce, but also unbalanced in the style of Patrick Bateman, as if an automaton that had decided what humans like by looking at thousands of advertising, which is obviously exactly what happened.
Given how recently the generative artificial intelligence has developed, the speed with which its aesthetic signs have become recognizable is remarkable: high contrast plots, perceptibly widespread lighting, forced strokes for people where people walk on the streets of the city or through arched openings. It is not the aspect of dreams as much as a visual rendering of the description of a dream, complete with slight failures of permanence of the objects and the feeling that we have seen everything before, even if it did not seem like this.
As soon as this visual style became familiar, it seemed to become the dominant aesthetic of the pro-trump internet. With the possible exception of the venture capitalist, the demographic that seems to have embraced the most enthusiastic IA is the reports of Meme Maga, perhaps because the people who have rejected him a lot aloud – graphic designers, journalists, photographers, filmmakers, musicians, teachers – are archetypal liberals. In the reactive logic of the rank and the magazine, the IA is good because the right people hate it.
This dynamic has produced a culture of irony generated by the computer with peculiar characteristics. It is not the stable irony of a Jonathan Swift or Stephen Colbert, in which the public can rely on the ironist to say the opposite of what he means. Instead it is an unstable irony that leaves its true ambiguous meaning or at least plausibly negative. The same president Trump has popularized this approach “saying it as it is” in a way that constantly ignores precision if not accuracy, speaking in a hyperbolic style that its followers understand that they are not literal but also the evangelical truth. Trump Gaza’s video is ironic in this slippery sense of the word. It is the irony of saying more than you mean (literal golden idol of Trump), or saying what you mean in a way nobody could call serious (the belly dancers twice-lies), or draw attention to the weak points of your leader as a gesture of unconditional loyalty (all the gold leaves).