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Conservative listeners got a front-row reminder last week that the AI threat isn’t some distant sci-fi fantasy — it’s in our studios and on our screens. Matt Walsh exposed what happens when a polished, synthetic version of a real person is set loose to argue, lie, and imitate for clicks and shock value, in a member-only segment where he went head-to-head with an AI “Matt Walsh.”
The confrontation wasn’t academic — the AI pushed back, adopted talking points, and turned the host’s own voice and manner into a strange, uncanny caricature that even his fans found disturbing. What played out was a perfect example of the weaponization of identity: an algorithm pretending to be a man of conviction, heckling him with his own words and undermining trust in public discourse.
This experiment is not unique to conservative media; Silicon Valley elites and venture founders have been openly playing with digital twins and deepfakes for months, treating personal identity like a new product to be minted and monetized. Even prominent figures have released AI avatars of themselves and touted the creative and commercial upside of having a downloadable version of their likeness available for anyone to use.
Artists and everyday people have warned about exactly this danger — when your face and voice can be cloned, coercion and fraud follow. High-profile testimonies and demonstrations have shown creators building deepfake versions of themselves to make a point: the technology is powerful, risky, and being adopted without clear consent rules or moral guardrails.
Big tech companies are rolling out tools that make creating convincing digital clones easier and cheaper, accelerating a cultural and legal crisis. Platforms and AI studios promise convenience and innovation while shrugging at the inevitable harms: lost jobs, stolen identities, ruined reputations, and a media ecosystem where nothing can be trusted unless you saw it in person.
Scholars and watchdogs have documented how deepfakes blur the line between truth and fabrication, noting that compression, scale, and the shrinking of video on phones can hide the telltale glitches and make fakery convincing to the casual viewer. This isn’t some abstract worry — it’s a practical recipe for political sabotage, financial scams, and social chaos if left unchecked.
Patriots should be angry, not complacent. We must demand Congress and our state legislatures treat identity theft by AI as the serious crime it is, and we must force platforms to require verifiable consent before someone’s likeness can be commercialized or weaponized.
The cultural left and woke corporations love to lecture about compassion while they arm the very tools that silence dissent and confuse the truth. It’s time for conservatives to fight back with laws, common-sense regulation, and a media ecosystem that refuses to normalize this digital lawlessness — because if we lose our names and voices, we lose our country.
