Why is the leader of the free world addicted to AI slop?

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In a display of tastelessness that is startling even by Donald Trump’s standards, the US president shared a video of the man who died after being attacked by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. When William Chapman’s family issued a plea for the footage not to be shared, they couldn't possibly have imagined that the most famous man on the planet would ignore them soon after.

But if re-posting the video of the incident itself was bad enough, Trump then followed it up by sharing an AI-generated video of himself wrestling with and befriending a smiling tiger, set to the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. He also posted a compilation video of lions attacking zookeepers and visitors. The backlash from social media users has been swift and damning, but it won’t make a jot of difference. Trump’s addiction........

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