Hochwäuser in a futuristic style, sun -friendly beach promenades and a huge golden statue – that’s how Donald Trump appears to imagine the future of the Gaza Strip. At least it is this picture that conveys a AI-generated video that the US President recently posted.
Where the video came from was initially unclear – Trump himself had given up a comment in the post. In the meantime, it has turned out that the clip was by no means created by Trump’s environment or on its instructions. Rather, the US President has simply used the Internet. The creators behind are two company founders who create advertising videos with artificial intelligence. And they are not very enthusiastic about Donald Trump used her work for his purposes.
Trump wants to make the “Riviera of the Middle East” from Gaza
Solo Avital and Ariel Vrome came up with the idea when they heard Trump’s vision for Gaza on TV. He wants to make a “Riviera of the Middle East” out of the crisis area, which was battered by the war. They fed a AI that they wanted to try for their work with some commands – the video came out, which now knows almost the whole world. Avital and Vromen, both born in Israel, cannot explain how this came about.
You would have shared the video with some friends, Vromen told the US broadcaster NBC, for a few hours it was also on Instagram: “I deleted it again because some did not understand the context.” The video should be a satire, “a joke”. This is exactly what Donald Trump did not understand – to the dismay of the two video artists from Los Angeles.
Donald Trump did not ask for permission
Three weeks after the creation, the US President suddenly spread the video. Solo Avital told Guardian that he was “totally surprised”. He and his colleague accuse Trump that on the one hand they did not ask for permission and on the other hand they have misunderstood the intention of the video. “We are storytellers, not provocators. We sometimes make satire, as it was intended in this case,” says Avital. “It depends on which context you bring to make the punch line or the joke. There was no context here and it was posted without our consent or knowledge.”
Avital and Vromen therefore wanted to test the possibilities of a AI program, perhaps still satirically implement Trump’s statements, but did not send a political message. “It was not our intention to become a propaganda machine,” clarifies Ariel Vromen. According to their own statement, the two do not know how the US president became aware of their video. However, they are surprised that Trump apparently found the content so good that he posted it on his side-after all, the AI president dances with another woman, the golden statue of him also reminds him of a dictator. “I could never have imagined that,” says Vrome.
In the video, Trump’s consultant Elon Musk celebrates the dollar rain, Trump and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu together drink cocktails by the pool. In the background there is a song in which it says: “Donald comes to free yourself.” Trump’s Gaza-Plan had caused a lot of criticism because it would mean to move all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other Arab states. According to experts, a forced relocation would violate international law.
Sources: Donald Trump on Truth Social, NBC, “Guardian”, news agency dpa
