• Advance UK paid a secretive AI operation to make its political campaign content
  • The same group created Danny Bones, a white-nationalist rapper whose videos target Muslims. They have been viewed millions of times
  • Experts said this could mark new ground in the use of AI tools for political ends
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      Amelia is thirsty fascist slop, derivative and boring like everything right wing. Because conservativism is by definition dull samey grandad politics for dull samey cardboard cutout tryhard emotionally stunted bootlicking johns

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        Amelia is thirsty fascist slop

        Everything is fascist to you isn’t it? Like everything you disagree with. Amelia meme is reaction for Orwelian propaganda made be leftist people. Did you play the “Pathways” (game amelia character came from)? It literally Orwell novel IRL

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          Yeah I played it. She was player bait, a classic femme fatale. You were supposed to end up at the racist rally because look she has fun hair and then oop regret your decisions.

          Orwellian is a misnomer here, though. The “game” was literally about getting on with homework instead of being drawn into sketchy shit. Unless you really hate homework and you want to rage against learning idk

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            Nowhere it’s mentioned rally is racist. Literally nowhere. There’s not a single wrong thing about it, but it’s framed as bad. Worse, game implies that you should ignore scientific data (as main character goes through statistics and charts on supposedly harmful site). That’s horrifying. Like, Orwelian level of horrifying.

            Obey. Never do your own research, obey, rallies bad because we say so, obey, obey, obey.

            Orwell 1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual. FFS

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              Amelia, Charlie's close friend, has made a video encouraging young people in Bridlington to join a political group that seeks to defend English rights.

              This is very obviously an English nationalist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, rally.

              Whilst it’s pointless to further discuss precise authorial intent, what is interesting is your insistence that this little illustrated story is not referencing the far-right with a character that has been subsequently co-opted by the far-right.

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                This isn’t far right in the first place. This is norm in poland, where I live. If immigrant crimes, he gets deported. You think Poland is far right fascist regime? Of course it’s not. Your interpretation of reality is twisted and incoherent. This is exactly what that propaganda wants you to be - typical Orwelian doublethinker.

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                  No I think these are cultural differences, this was written for an English audience. Ironically the xenophobic Brexit vote was iirc campaigned largely on sending emigrants back to Poland.

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                    I never considered it xenophobic. Like half a million people migrated from PL and other new members to UK causing difficulties on labor market at a time polish UE accession. And it was a legitimate issue. It fixed itself after few years as markets equilibrqted and it’s was definetly not issue at the time of Brexit, but these concerns had nothing to do with xenophobia.

                    was iirc campaigned largely on sending emigrants back to Poland.

                    The most ridiculous thing about it is that after Brexit UK opened their borders and that pro Brexit crowd got the exactly opposite of what they were promosed

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          From OP’s linked article:

          [The same people use] a second AI persona, a young purple-haired woman called Amelia, who appears in various Danny Bones videos and standalone clips. The character was originally created by the political and media literacy organisation Shout Out UK for a Home Office-funded video game designed to steer teenagers away from extremism – but was then co-opted by the online far right and became a viral sensation.

          So yes, I guess “she” is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn’t check).

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            Yeah I misremembered name.

            It’s a Streisand effect of horrible UK government propaganda game. It was so incomprehensively bad that it was turned into meme

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        It’s complete crap. I don’t see coherence in the video. It’s all a thinly veiled thirst shit.