The News Anchor Is a Guy From Fiverr
A new breed of political content farm is hiring real actors to play fake commentators reading AI-assisted scripts. The face is authentic. The media identity isn't.
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FIELD NOTES FROM THE FEED
Field notes from an internet becoming easier to fill and harder to trust. AI slop, algorithm bait, fake authority, corporate goo, and the occasional thing still worth paying attention to.
AI feels weightless from the prompt box, but the infrastructure behind it is physical, hot, power-hungry, and increasingly thirsty. The stranger question is what happens when real water is being spent to manufacture disposable digital slop.
A new breed of political content farm is hiring real actors to play fake commentators reading AI-assisted scripts. The face is authentic. The media identity isn't.