You know we’re living in a strange timeline when the president of the U.S. is casually sharing AI videos of himself on social media, but — as Stephen Colbert pointed out on The Late Show — this story gets messier the closer you look at it.
“The president of the United States posted an AI video of a Fox News report that never happened featuring a fake version of himself, saying things he never said about a magic, foot-growing-back body-pod that does not exist, all reported by an AI anchor of his real daughter-in-law,” says Colbert, giving a depressingly accurate summary of the strange AI conspiracy Donald Trump posted about non-existent, secret, cure-all “medbeds”.
“After watching that I hope they have medbeds so I can regrow my brain back.”
It’s difficult to analyse why Trump posted the video and what was going through his mind when he watched it, but Colbert also gives that a go.
“It really seems like Trump saw the AI video of himself and thought it was real. Which means he also thinks in 2020 he did this,” the host says, before playing an AI clip of Trump dancing next to a bongo-playing Joe Biden.
