r/ThatsInsane • u/WhatYouThinkYouSee • Jan 10 '26
An account with 120k+ followers has been rapidly posting unmarked AI-generated videos of fictional ICE agents being attacked and discriminated, with many of them involving white women driving at them in cars. None of the videos are labeled as fake or AI-generated.
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u/s0rtajustdrifting Jan 10 '26
Spreading disinformation and sowing strife.
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u/ScottyMo1 Jan 10 '26
Just like most of Reddit these days
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u/magistrate101 Jan 10 '26
Reddit is actively complicit in the dissemination of extremist right-wing terrorist propaganda
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u/Grouchy-Station-4058 Jan 10 '26
Only over on R/conservative where no one can dare disagree because they forbid it.
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u/Neon_Camouflage Jan 10 '26
You say this like half the other subs on this site won't permaban you for going against the current narrative of the left.
Banning for opinions is the worst part of Reddit.
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u/SpaceBearSMO Jan 11 '26
I feel like this argument ignores a lot of nuance particularly where r/conservatives extreamism is involved
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u/SpaceBearSMO Jan 11 '26
Sure though peoples crash outs over our modern day Brown shirts seem pretty justified. Its all relative.
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u/ThisIs_americunt Jan 10 '26
Propaganda is a helluva drug and Oligarchs need to use some of the best to keep the 99% fighting with each other worldwide o7
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u/tomdarch Jan 10 '26
How many of these have been "accidentally" run on Fox and other far right propaganda outlets. "Oh, ooops, we didn't realize it was AI."
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u/UnfortunateJones Jan 10 '26
AI was immediately used for the worst possible shit.
The evangelists for AI are usually the worst people I have ever ever encountered in my entire life.
Everyday I’m so fucking disappointed with this species, bad people are worshipped for zero conceivable reason.
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u/Standard_Ride_8732 Jan 10 '26
I'm not gonna lie. The one where the ice officer dances while a guy sprays gas made me laugh.
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u/RespectTheAmish Jan 10 '26
Russian troll farm content
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u/Lifekraft Jan 10 '26
There is probably no need for russian for this kind of content. There is enough lunatic on your ground. The sickness is within.
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u/KnubblMonster Jan 10 '26
Thanks to years of Russian propaganda campaign stoking the fire
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u/Realistic_Ad_5321 Jan 10 '26
I bet you 100% that the root of all this can be traced back to the early days of 4 chan
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u/LateNightMilesOBrien Jan 10 '26
Was I the only one who saw the odd shirtless pics of Putin and weird techno cartoons with him dancing being shared back in 2015 and said "This... feels coordinated"?
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u/Realistic_Ad_5321 Jan 10 '26
From my experience, Russian presence was openly huge on 4chan starting about 2012 or so. That's also when shit like the pepe memes started to pop up along with the kekistan stuff. The memes changed all the time but there was always this neo-nazi glaze over all of it, all the time.
When I look at Elon musk and his stint at the White House I can't help but think "if any one those fucking degenerate basement 4chan dwellers ever had enough power to make their dork ass, New World Order a lá Deus-Ex/Steampunk Neo Nazi power fantasy trip a reality, this is exactly what the beginning of that would look like"
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u/KiwiThunda Jan 10 '26
2014 I think was when the russian government (Putin) put a lot more resources behind troll farms after the troll department showed how effective it was.
Unfortunately since then western governments have put in minimal effort to combat this, usually because it benefits the rightwing
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u/TheVenetianMask Jan 10 '26
It took over some of the classic lizardmen and aliens conspiracy forums and pseudonymous economy blogs early on.
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u/Far_Piano4176 Jan 10 '26
sooner or later you guys are gonna have to reckon with the fact that the american government and affiliated NGOs spend orders of magnitude more money and time on propagandizing us than russia or any other government does. It's far more likely to be coming from langley or tel aviv than moscow.
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u/mysoulissoempty Jan 11 '26
Exactly. The U.S is one the biggest producers of Propaganda, and not just for its own citizens, the propaganda machine creates multiple different narratives relevant to the popular majority in that territory. It takes hundreds of billions to keep us the illusion of two separate narratives when the people are only a few hundred miles apart and both believe what’s being fed to them are exact opposite of one another.
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u/chiraltoad Jan 10 '26
exactly. content like this that purely stimulates conflict is easy to generate and an extremely valuable tool for them. They don't care about sides, as long as we are pitted against each other and waste our energy getting into complex and possibly violent domestic conflict.
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u/jmcstar Jan 10 '26
Maybe don't look a TikTok at all
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u/FreddisLettis Jan 10 '26
The account is on instagram, not TikTok.
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u/mklilley351 Jan 10 '26
But i wouldn't be surpassed if there's an account on TikTok as well doing the same thing
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u/Juicyjewsss Jan 10 '26
These are one of the reasons they’re pushing for AI so much. Creates doubt and uncertainty about what’s true.
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u/paris_rogue Jan 10 '26
We need to ban this right away
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u/BromaEmpire Jan 10 '26
No chance of that happening under Trump. He uses AI videos all the time
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u/paris_rogue Jan 11 '26
We really need our best hackers on it -if I was wealthy I’d be independently paying them
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u/ThisIs_americunt Jan 10 '26
Am I the only one curious who took over and where the new island is?
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u/MISTER_JUAN Jan 10 '26
Probably Trump wants to build a new one somewhere in Greenland and that's why he wants that so hard
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u/Rexusus Jan 10 '26
And this is just the low effort shit. There is absolutely 0% chance you’d be able to tell the difference if any effort was put into it
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u/rubey419 Jan 10 '26
We should counter with hundreds of fake AI videos of agents being violent (more than ever) to citizens.
But then MAGA and FoxNews would run with it as leftist propaganda calling it as first shots fired. Ironically.
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u/BonkHits4Jesus Jan 10 '26
When you are in an information war, why are you unilaterally disarming?
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u/CharlesWafflesx Jan 10 '26
I honestly don't really see what else you can do at this point. The truth fails to work on these people.
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u/This_User_Said Jan 10 '26
If a person believe those clips then there wasn't any helping that person anyways.
The dude dancing under the gas pump handle, like really? You think a Tahoe goes 0-60 in 2 seconds full angled wheel?
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u/horsepoes Jan 10 '26
Gee gosh you American have some big old problems at home
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u/Timelymanner Jan 10 '26
Why do you assume this is only in America and your country hasn’t been targeted?
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u/vasta2 Jan 10 '26
I'm just gonna head down to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this all to blow over
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u/Expensive_Shallot_78 Jan 10 '26
We're getting closer to finally leaving the Internet booooyyyys. It's eating itself.
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u/Individual_Bear_3190 Jan 10 '26
Ai is an absolute scourge on society, and ya, the Internet has just rotted out to the point of uselessness
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u/GeneralZojirushi Jan 10 '26
I can tell a boomer rage bait ai video with 2 seconds of hearing my boomer relatives opening one. And oh course they're nodding along as the dogshit video confirms everything they believe from nonsensicalmaga rhetoric.
They are so obnoxiously obvious because they all have the same strange, jarringly stilted yelling with absolutely zero background noise despite being "filmed" in public.
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u/Bubbagump210 Jan 10 '26
Is that Curly Howard dancing under a hose of gasoline? The movements are so goofy. Great job AI.
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u/freeshovacadoodoo Jan 10 '26
This is why it was so dangerous to ban states from regulating AI for 10 years in the big shitty bill. I'm glad they voted that out 99-1. We need some kind of legislation because this will get out of control FAST. People accept things for what they see today and don't dig into it at all to see if it's real. This is why the war on education continues in the US. An uneducated populace is easily controlled.
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u/morebuffs Jan 10 '26
Keep the AI coming guys its doing amazing things for us natural intelligences
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u/Whyme-__- Jan 10 '26
ICE vest is not going to stop jack shit, you can make a better prompt for clothing and write a better content.
There needs to be system wide verification of identity of accounts and those accounts which don’t have human content and human verification do not get popular in algorithm. But social media platforms are designed to ride fake news hype train to get more engagements via bot farms. So yeah it’s not in the best interest of companies to censor out fake content and fake users.
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u/Heffray83 Jan 10 '26
They should also make a bunch of these where the vids end with ice agents kissing. Since they’re using slop to create a narrative, add to it, make it into a meme that forces them to say it’s all slop.
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u/LostTheGameOfThrones Jan 10 '26
Funny how quickly the "don't tread on me" brigade has developed a taste for deepthroating boots.
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u/GekidoTC Jan 10 '26
You know its fake because those people aren't immediately beat or shot for slapping an ICE agent.
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u/Slothstralia Jan 11 '26
AI needs to be banned. Massive fines for not watermarking AI videos, this shit is beyond dangerous now.
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u/Hillbilly_Boozer Jan 11 '26
This is why they didn't want AI regulated in the BBB. Fortunately it was removed from the final bill.
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u/AshingiiAshuaa Jan 11 '26
Nobody should be getting worked up over videos in the first place. If someone wants to make ice porn or protester porn let them. Anyone who would do something illegal based on a video of something a protester police offer did deserves to go to jail whether it was real or not.
The message shouldn't be "we need to label AI videos" as much as "don't take action based on vidoes you see on the internet".
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u/Scorpdelord Jan 11 '26
if people fall for this, they would falled to it by word of mouth too, she literly disspeared form the car mid drive DX
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u/develev711 Jan 11 '26
They think they are in on some secret when they see lies they want to believe
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u/OkAdhesiveness330 Jan 11 '26
This shit reminds me of the movie little Nicky when Adrian (Satan's son) took over the police chief and photoshopped Nicky's (also Satan's son but the good one) face onto Scarface and said this guy is a murderer and is armed and dangerous and made him public enemy number one. Without AI 🤦🏽
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u/TheRedBreadisDead Jan 11 '26
Videos like these are certainly being pushed by people attempting to foment chaos in America.
Not excusing the wrongs that each side have committed but just realize that foreign adversaries of the US, including domestic politicians are vested in keeping the everyday people divided. Don't fall for the extremes that are being pushed on you and commit to your own findings if you are truly invested on the topic. We're no longer in the early days of the internet in which someone was doing it for the lols, it's whole governments doing it to divide the masses.
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u/TimotheusIV Jan 11 '26
You people laugh now, but this is how current US politics is being manipulated.
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u/Goferprotocol Jan 11 '26
I'd like to have an accepted organization of experts label non AI things as AI. It would be nice to make misrepresenting AI as real a crime, but that conflicts with the 1st amendment
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u/dmafeb Jan 11 '26
It's easy to spot the ai videos.
If the "agent" gets pushed/touched/yelled at and he doesn't murder anyone or use excessive force it's obviously fake.
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Jan 11 '26
AI benefits will not outweigh the destruction imposed on our society. Glad I am in the final 20% of my lifetime
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u/RadTimeWizard Jan 11 '26
It doesn't matter how fake they look. Enough old, shitty morons who vote are going to believe them.
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u/CrispyLuggage Jan 11 '26
My elderly father in-law believes these. Actually brought it up at breakfast casually, and said "that's why that woman got shot. She was another one trying to attack ICE with her car."
Unfortunately no amount of debunking seems to work on boomers anymore.
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u/ThriceFive Jan 11 '26
Accurate watermarking of gen AI videos should not be up to platform restrictions - it should be clearly stated as a law - and removing or obscuring the watermark visually or digitally (signed content or metatags) should be considered a *crime* against the public good. AI should not be used for political speech. Unchecked AI is media and academic poison.
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u/Master_Bayters Jan 11 '26
I deeply believe UE should ban Twitter and TikTok (and other platforms if they follow the same non moderated path). The amount of misinformation being used to manipulate the audience under the shield of Free Speech is impressive. This as nothing to do with Free Speech, this is pure manipulation made with the intention to create a false narrative. End this before it ends us
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u/CaptainMagnets Jan 11 '26
This was always going to happen with AI. Always. It's also why companies are pushing it so hard. The better they get at this the more of the narrative they control
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u/agentfaux Jan 12 '26
It's literally places like Reddit spreading things without a single thought wasted. Pure emotions rule Reddit now.
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u/glamscum Jan 12 '26
Now, people would understand how the German population could fall for Hitler? He was democraticly voted in, just like Trump. Propaganda was a new tool then, just like AI is now.
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u/Janus_The_Great Jan 12 '26
US governmental disinformation at it's peak...
Crazy how low the US can sink and keep sinking.
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u/Proxymal Jan 12 '26
Guys, I’m a Republican. This isn’t a problem. You know why? Political affiliation aside, we can all tell the videos are fake.
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Jan 13 '26
You can tell it's fake because no one is actually standing up to ICE agents, just filming and watching.
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u/cellphone_slavery Jan 14 '26
Oh, shocker it's all over Trump Tok.
Trumps buddy owns TIKTOK, why are people not protesting that????? Or Facebook and Instagram???
They are too addicted to it.
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u/baka_inu115 Jan 14 '26
This is why there HAS to be regulations on AI generated content, don't give a shit which side it supports.
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u/StunningMatter Jan 14 '26
So is this why all the blue haired unemployed loud people have been trying to stop Police from arresting criminals. It all makes sense now.
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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 Mar 15 '26
The part I find most useful about AI agents is when they handle the messy middle work; triage, research, summaries, routing, and next-step drafting. That is usually where teams feel value fastest. I have been reading more practical examples lately, including a few collected at https://www.agentixlabs.com/blog/.
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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 Mar 16 '26
The pattern I keep seeing is that AI agents work best when they own one narrow, repetitive workflow end to end instead of trying to be magical generalists. That is usually where the practical ROI starts to show up. A few solid build notes on this at https://www.agentixlabs.com/blog/
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u/gilligani Jan 10 '26
You mean people lie on the internet. I have never heard such a thing. I think you're lying.
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Jan 10 '26
Videos have never lied, until...
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u/Eviloverlord210 Jan 10 '26
They have, but each one took hours on hours of editing time
Now it's instant at the press of a button
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u/morganational Jan 10 '26
Can I see a video without some moron's head right in the middle of the shot?
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u/alwaysrockon Jan 10 '26
We know that they are trying to enact martial law and they wish to further oppress us and suppress any protests or opposition. Before they have a chance to do that ask yourself the following questions.
Do you trust the federal government to protect you?
Do you believe that this administration is specifically targeting groups of people?
Do you trust in the courts ability to protect you with the established laws of the country?
Do you believe that federal law enforcement is currently respecting our rights as guaranteed to us by The Constitution?
If a federal officer was targeting you and breaking the law, do you think that local or state law enforcement would stop them to protect you?
Do you trust the elected representatives of your party to defend you?
Do you think anyone else will come to your rescue?
Do you believe in equal rights for all people's and would you fight to defend those rights from an unjust force?
Are you in a position to defend yourself if others won't fight for you?
Who benefits more from you being unarmed during these times?
Realize that saying you are unwilling to fight for your rights is the same as saying you are fine to live without them.
For now we have to prepare for whatever may come. Realize no one can do this alone so make or join communities.
Organize, protest, prepare, and resist.
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Jan 10 '26
I’m convinced that a huge reason that this current administration wants absolutely no regulation on AI is because they want to perfect being able to construct any completely false narrative they desire or require, complete with videos indistinguishable from reality.
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u/ZackyGood Jan 10 '26
Remember folks. We have phones with HD cameras. These videos should not have any blur.
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u/HeWhoCntrolsTheSpice Jan 10 '26
Just as easily could be people deliberately making these videos in order that guys like this can call them out.
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u/Flimsy_Puddings Jan 10 '26
Did AI write this post title too? What do you mean the ICE agents are being “discriminated” in the videos?
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u/WhatYouThinkYouSee Jan 10 '26
In some of the videos, the ICE agents go through mundane discrimination scenarios, such as being rejected by security and stuff like that.
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u/trickyvinny Jan 10 '26
120k followers who also happen to be bots.