Artificial Hate

Bloody AI.  It's taking over everything.  Even right-wing extremism, it seems.  I was reading today about this racist, extreme-right meme 'sweeping' the internet, which involves an AI generated Goth girl extolling the virtues of good old 'British Values' - enslaving black people, suppressing workers' rights and telling Johnny Foreigner where to get off, for instance - and having racist encounters with bearded AI Muslim stereotypes.  Should the likes of Nigel Farage and 'Tommy Robinson' feel threatened?  Is AI the future of right-wing extremism?   I mean, why listen to the demented rantings of a failed commodities broker or a convicted mortgage fraudster and football thug, when you can instead have as your figurehead an AI generated fascist who carries no past baggage of criminal convictions or dodgy City dealings?  For one thing, they can be far more physically attractive than either frog faced Farage or short arse Robinson, (it's apparently a rule that British fascists have to not only be stupid, but also ugly as sin).  Plus, if they do start spouting awful racist insults at minorities, they have the automatic defence that they aren't real, so can't really be racist, can they?  It's all just a glitch in the algorithm rather than evidence of deep seated irrational bigotry and hatred.  Arguably, they would also be more efficient than any flesh and blood neo Nazi leader: able to do their own fact checks before they speak, able to properly research their bigotry and able to phrase it subtly enough that it doesn't ostensibly sound racist, let alone be legally actionable.

This hypothetical new AI leader of the British extreme right could also star in their own propaganda videos which look far better and classier than anything Reform UK could produce.  They could be seen participating in the crusades, for instance, single handedly fighting off hordes of Saracens, before the scene morphs into one of them single handedly turning back hundreds of immigrants (who look just like those marauding Saracens) landing on a British beach in an Armada of rubber boats.  Or maybe they could be shown flying their Spitfire in defence of Britain, but not against the Luftwaffe, but instead against planes with crescents on their wings and tails, all flown by swarthy looking bearded devils, cackling evilly as they drop bombs on innocent British citizens.  I really think that Farage, Robinson and their ilk could find themselves under threat from AI.  How long can it be before some whacked out crypto-fascist tech billionaire decides to bypass buffoons like those two and instead create the sort of AI extreme right leader I've described and set them up as the figurehead of a new British extreme right, backed by their billions?  Quite frankly, the only hope for Farage et al lies in them creating their own AI avatars to represent them - an idealised digital Farage who isn't as utterly repugnant as the real one and who can put their arguments over slickly and plausibly, rather than coming over as a grubby money grabbing shill.  The AI revolution is coming and these guys need to get aboard or be swept aside by a new generation of digital fascists!