{"id":232255,"date":"2026-04-07T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:40:10","slug":"how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"how (and why) the US and Iran are flooding the zone with viral AI-generated noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/slopaganda-wars-how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise-280024\">how (and why) the US and Iran are flooding the zone with viral AI-generated noise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/slopaganda-wars-how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise-280024\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/slopaganda-wars-how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise-280024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-07 14:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime. <\/p>\n<p>Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by flooding social media with outdated war footage allegedly from the current conflict alongside AI-generated content depicting attacks on Tel Aviv and US bases in the Persian Gulf. <\/p>\n<p>More recently, viral video clips reportedly created by a team of Iranians depict Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Satan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Pete Hegseth, Ayatollah Khamenei, and others as Lego figurines. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the brave new world of slopaganda.<\/p>\n<h2>The rise of slopaganda<\/h2>\n<p>Late last year, in a paper published in Filisofiska Notiser, we coined the portmanteau \u201cslopaganda\u201d to refer to AI-generated slop that serves propagandistic purposes.<\/p>\n<p>By propaganda we mean communication intended to manipulate beliefs, emotions, attention, memory and other cognitive and affective processes to achieve political ends. Add generative artificial intelligence and the result is slopaganda. <\/p>\n<p>The slopaganda situation has since become far worse than we expected. <\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, US President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting himself piloting a fighter jet while wearing a crown and dumping faeces on American protesters. More recently, he  posted an AI-generated video envisaging his presidential library as an enormous gaudy skyscraper, complete with a golden elevator. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump mocks &#039;No Kings&#039; protests with shocking AI videos\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWHDKDwnJZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lego-themed Iran-created slopaganda is just the latest example. The material isn\u2019t just videos. It can also be images, text, or whatever else AI can generate. <\/p>\n<h2>How slopaganda slips through our defences<\/h2>\n<p>What is the point of all this slopaganda? We have several answers so far.<\/p>\n<p>First, through repeated exposure in both legacy and social media, slopaganda can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/slopaganda-wars-how-and-why-the-us-and-iran-are-flooding-the-zone-with-viral-ai-generated-noise-280024\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how (and why) the US and Iran are flooding the zone with viral AI-generated noise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/728265\/original\/file-20260407-63-c5o6pp.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=45%2C0%2C2677%2C1338&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-232255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232257,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232255\/revisions\/232257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}