The ad shows Maine Gov. Janet Mills giving little kids syringes with hormones. They couldn’t use real video because that never happened.

Republicans are attacking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) – who is running for the U.S. Senate – with a fake artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video of her giving a boy “a no-parent-permission-required estrogen kit.”

Mills has been a strong supporter of transgender rights this past year, refusing to bow to pressure from the president to ban trans kids from participating in school sports.

But instead of just criticizing her for her actual record of support for trans people, Republicans have decided to use deepfake videos.

  • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    What fucking estrogen kit would that even be? It looks so fucking fake, needles haven’t looked like that in decades. My estrogen needle and syringe is also tiny as fuck, there are two bottles in that kit, and only one bandaid that’s already had the wrapping removed? This is the most obviously fake bullshit I have ever seen not just because of how dumb it is but because of how inaccurate that stuff is.

    Also, two needles/syringes? Just two? So it’s two doses? That’s not much of a kit considering that’d be two weeks of a dose. Plus the syringes being so large shows they don’t understand how little your dosage is, I take .3ml every Friday, that syringe is too large to even be able to draw so little and measure it accurately. Also I’ve never seen a bottle of estrogen that fucking big, they literally don’t ship that large. I’m just. This is so fucking dumb.

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      19 hours ago

      But you’re not the target audience. Their target audience doesn’t care about all those ‘minor’ details and they don’t want to see how fake it is.

      All they will see is something that verfies their bullshit beliefs and justifies their bigotry.