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Americans are waking up to a new kind of rot on their screens: AI videos that look disturbingly real and churn out nonsense by the millions. Big platforms are letting this “AI slop” flood feeds, replacing human creativity with soulless, algorithm-fed junk that lures clicks and corrodes trust. This takeover isn’t just annoying — it’s reshaping what people believe is true in a way that benefits the powerful and punishes the honest.
Worse, some of this surge includes predatory tools that exploit women and children, with instructional videos teaching how to create nonconsensual nude images hosted and promoted on major sites. Investigations have found scores of YouTube videos pointing users to “nudifier” apps and bots that turn ordinary photos into sexualized deepfakes, and platforms only acted after being shamed into it. We cannot pretend these are harmless experiments when victims’ lives are being destroyed.
The threat isn’t limited to private harm; deepfakes pose a grave danger to our democracy by making it easy to fabricate events or statements and weaponize them during campaigns. Financial and policy analysts warn that realistic fakes can undermine confidence in elections and public institutions, a risk no free society should accept. When trust in our media and government erodes, everything that secures liberty is put at risk.
That is why bipartisan lawmakers have finally stepped in to demand transparency and labeling of AI-generated content so citizens can separate fact from fiction. A federal proposal would force AI creators and platforms to embed identifying markers and notify users, an overdue attempt to impose common-sense guardrails on runaway technology. Conservatives should be the first to insist on clear rules that protect free speech while defending truth and public safety.
Big Tech claims it will self-police, and platforms like YouTube have announced disclosure requirements for realistic synthetic content, but voluntary measures are never enough when profits are on the line. History shows that when industry promises to “do better” it usually means doing enough to avoid outrage while keeping the ad dollars flowing. The only durable remedy is enforceable law, vigorous enforcement, and real penalties for companies that enable fraud, child exploitation, and electoral sabotage.
This fight cuts to the heart of who we are as a nation: whether we will protect the vulnerable, preserve honest public discourse, and force powerful corporations to answer to the people. Conservatives must stop treating tech as an untouchable moral vacuum and start treating it like the civic infrastructure it now is — because family life, free speech, and the next election depend on it. Every hardworking American should demand that Congress legislate, law enforcement prosecute, and platforms stop pretending the status quo is acceptable.
We need a policy that punishes the predators who weaponize AI, shields children from sexual exploitation, and makes deceptive political content illegal and traceable. Citizens ought to pressure their representatives, cancel services that refuse to act responsibly, and support organizations that defend life and liberty in the digital age. If we allow this technology to be weaponized against innocence and truth, we will have only ourselves to blame.
