QAA Podcast - AI Slopaganda (Premium E338) Sample

Episode Date: May 30, 2026

Welcome to the age of AI slopaganda, where the synthetic videos are nearly indistinguishable from the real, the real videos are getting more suspect, and everyone is one fake Instagram Reel away from becoming the Facebook boomer they once mocked. Liv examines the newest iterations of AI-generated political propaganda, including Trump posting a fake video of himself throwing Stephen Colbert in a dumpster, “Swifties for Trump,” Mike Collins’ AI Jon Ossoff, Spencer Pratt’s Batman campaign ads, Iranian Lego anti-Hegseth videos, fake Netanyahu death images, deepfakes targeting women in politics, the Dean Phillips/Biden robocall, Gavin Newsom’s JD Vance couch slop, and Cuomo’s anti-Mamdani AI ads. We explore how “satire,” misinformation, engagement bait, and campaign strategy are collapsing into one ugly sludge pile. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! All episodes of Spectral Voyager Season 2 are out now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: https://www.cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) https://www.qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 338 AI. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky. Liv Egar. Julian Fields and Travis View. A couple days ago, I was scrolling Instagram mails, as I typically do. And I stumbled across a humorous video of a reporter attempting to get the attention of student protesters in Germany. I chuckled, liked the post, then before moving on to the next mildly funny video, I decided to go to the comment section.

It's there that I came to a horrible realization that in 2026, I am no longer better than the tech illiterate boomers I had been so fond of looking down on for the past few years. This is because that video actually turned out to be AI, and despite this, I'd come very close to watching it, perceiving it as real, and then moving on with my life. I'd come this close to having a slipper of the total amalgamation of things that my brain is processed, as having really happened in the world being instead a product of AI slop. And however small and insignificant that Sliver may have been, it still disturbed me greatly. Then I was hit with an even more disturbing realization that the obvious AI slot videos that used to very occasionally populate

my various social media feeds had seemed to recently, in the past year or so, completely disappear. Now, in my brain, I'd come to think that this was because we, as a society, had become sick and tired of AI slop, that this specific, awful, uncanny brand of videos and photos had become tiresome to anyone except the most boomerist of boomer on Facebook. Because surely in 2026, if you haven't become accustomed to what AI looks like, you must be a complete moron.

It was then I realized that what had instead happened was that I had become the Facebook boomer. That this fake AI video was surely not the only one that had come across my feed in recent times. And given that I have not thoroughly checked the comment sections of literally every reel I've come across in the past year, there was almost certainly a non-zero number of AI slot videos that I had falsely ID'd as real. I realized that in the murky subconscious of my mind, deep in there somewhere, I had memories of things actually happening that were, in fact, instead generated by a hastily constructed data center in some poor American rural town whose future ruins will mark an arrogance

rivaled only by Azimandias, that AI Slop had successfully tore a hole in the fabric of my reality, a hole that however likely insignificant could at this point never be purged completely. We are now in the age of AI Slop, where it is becoming increasingly hard to distinguish these fake videos and photos from the real world. And while it was so easy for years to see this as a scale issue that wouldn't affect the more aware, online, younger population, it seems we must now begin to contend with an age of politics where anyone can potentially be fooled by artificial intelligence. And so, for part three of my AI is ruining the world series, I've decided to delve into the world of AI slop as political propaganda.

The many cases where fake photos and videos have been used, sometimes shockingly successfully, by politicians either as a means of depicting their opponents as the soy wojack and them as the Chad, or to overtly trick their constituents into believing something that is not real. This is awesome because it's like, I was tricked. Well, looks like the whole world's AI now.

Looks like we're far. If you got me. Looks like society's in real trouble. The most enlightened and intelligent individual on these apps. Well, some of our faves. I am the touring test. Once I'm tricked, that's it.

Now, this was me live like eight months ago, probably, where there was some, like, TikTok I saw on it was like, can you detect which of the following our videos, our AI? And it would show two at once. One was a real video. One was an AI video. And I picked wrong, I mean, half the time. Yeah, this is just like when I found out Spider-Man wasn't real.

It's like when Santa. My mom told me Sandy wasn't really last year. What the fuck? It's not hard for me. As we'll see, I mean, most AI videos are still, like, pretty easy to detect if you're aware, but, like, the well-produced ones are getting a lot more convincing, particularly the ones where it's like someone has a voiceover and they have real human intonation and then they make another voice onto that voice as opposed to just, like,

reading from a script. Like, it's starting to become a lot more difficult for, like, the game is on. Yeah. And it's only good, the problem is with how much absurd amount of money is being pumped into these things like it's only going to get worse it used to be it was so easy two years ago when you know like the video of will smith eating spaghetti right he's like oh you have to be a fucking idiot i think the biggest tragedy for me is that when i see a cool insect or a cool animal that looks like it shouldn't exist it's possible now that it does not actually yeah i know it sucks they're stealing our

fucking insects they're stealing our fucking pets they're stealing our dogs and our cats and our beautiful What do they call them? A-Tarks? A-TRAX. No, I don't know. If I had found out when I was in, like, third grade, that the giant squid, like my favorite animal of all time, was actually just like a computer creation, I would have been heartbroken. Yeah, it turns out that Captain Aib actually got fooled by Facebook AI Slav.

It wasn't. Swinwell was not real. He wasted his life. I just can't wait for there to be so much AI content that the AI is, training itself on AI content that was generated by some other LLM. And they're all, like, cross-referencing each other into oblivion, into, like, some new form of visual or auditory media. There was a great Michael Keaton movie about this called.

What was it called? Come on. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Dig, dig, dig. It's like he's starting a lawnmower. Access files, films, 1990, movies potentially watched with a babysitter. Multiplicity, multiplicity, multiplicity with Michael Keaton is a very good example of this.

A copy of a copy of a copy of a copy never ends up good. Yeah, recursion does seem like it is an issue for the large language models, particularly like the text-based stuff. Because they're trained on the ice lot. But I think video and photo production doesn't have the same issue, unfortunately. As far as I'm aware. That's too bad. Yeah, that would be awesome. I was just looking forward to like the mutant fucked up babies like coming out of the laboratories.

Yeah. My favorite is like there's a recent chat GBT where they had to specifically, like open I had to specifically instruct it to stop talking about like ghouls and goblins. Yeah. Stop being so spooky. Because it would bring it out completely out of context. It's getting super obsessive. Yeah. You know, uh, ghles and goblins about this. It's like, but millennial women ages 34 to 39 a love spooky shit and Halloween.

Which is true. Finding out that like every girlfriend in the Pacific Northwest is AI. I don't know about you guys, but I just assume now every commercial that I see on TV is all AI actors. I just assume because because that's, that is what they would do. That's what commercial people would do. I've seen a shocking number of like commercials on television that use AI. There's one for a grocery store near me that for Memorial Day was just obvious AI slop, videos of like barbecues and pool parties and like patriotic scenes. And it's like, I guess I was,

I was a little shocked to see how quickly, you know, marketers took up this technology to make commercials cheaply. Yeah, they usually have such high standards of ethics. Well, that's what I'm saying about the, exactly. Well, just, just as a, just as a marketing signal, you think it would be, it was like, you know, it's like, I felt like, well, I was like, I was like, I obviously can tell that this is cheaply made AI is kind of like, it's kind of like ugly. I thought maybe other people would do that too. It would maybe, maybe not be as quiet as convincing as like, you know, authentically filmed scene of a barbecue in the backyard. Rats devour day old corpse. News at 11.

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Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude maybe? That's not true. The part about be crying. Not me being grateful. I'm very grateful.