{"id":7484,"date":"2025-12-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/trump-bbc-journalists-ai-deepfake\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:00:00","slug":"trump-bbc-journalists-ai-deepfake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/trump-bbc-journalists-ai-deepfake\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Guess They Used AI or Something\u201d: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked \u201cWords in My Mouth, Literally\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC<\/em> on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages. <\/p>\n

The suit alleges that the British broadcaster had produced a \u201cfalse, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump\u201d in its Panorama documentary, which aired in the week leading up to the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n

More specifically, it accused the BBC<\/em> of editing his infamous January 6, 2021, speech to make it seem like he had explicitly urged his supporters to storm the US Capitol building prior to the insurrection. At the time, his speech sparked a debate<\/a> over whether he\u2019d incited violence or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Panorama Documentary falsely depicted President Trump telling supporters: \u2018We\u2019re going to walk down to the Capitol and I\u2019ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell and if you don\u2019t fight like hell, you\u2019re not going to have a country anymore,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cPresident Trump never uttered this sequence of words.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges that Trump said the words, \u201cand we fight,\u201d 55 minutes after saying, \u201cI\u2019ll be there with you,\u201d even though the documentary allegedly made it sound like he said it in a single sequence.<\/p>\n

Trump himself, however, made a much stronger claim. During an announcement from the Oval Office on Monday night<\/a>, Trump said he\u2019s \u201csuing the BBC<\/em> for putting words in my mouth, literally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey actually had me saying things that I never said coming out of my mouth,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI guess they used AI or something. They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn\u2019t say.\u201d<\/p>\n

The remarks are baffling, since the 33-page suit makes no mention of artificial intelligence and accuses the BBC<\/em> of editing his speech together to construct a call to action \u2014 not some AI deepfake version of the president, as Trump suggests.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there are plenty of AI-generated clips of Trump<\/a> already out there. The president himself likes to post AI slop on his Truth Social account<\/a>, for that matter. But this lawsuit is about something else entirely, implying that Trump wasn\u2019t successfully briefed <\/strong>on the details prior to his Monday announcement.<\/p>\n

Last month, the BBC<\/em> received a letter<\/a> from Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief, Brendan Carr, who has long garnered a reputation for trying to chill speech by abusing his powers<\/a>. In the letter, Carr accused the broadcaster of splicing Trump\u2019s January 6 speech.<\/p>\n

At the time, the BBC<\/em> buckled to the pressure almost immediately, publicly apologizing. Yet it refused Trump\u2019s demand for financial compensation.<\/p>\n

This clearly angered Trump and Carr, given the $10 billion lawsuit that was filed this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BBC<\/em> has a long pattern of deceiving its audience in coverage of President Trump, all in service of its own leftist political agenda,\u201d a White House spokesperson told CNBC<\/em><\/a>. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s powerhouse lawsuit is holding the BBC<\/em> accountable for its defamation and reckless election interference just as he has held other fake news mainstream media responsible for their wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mystifying situation that\u2019ll be red meat to critics who say Trump may be losing his grip on reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just this week, Trump posted a deranged takedown<\/a> of famed Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who was killed in a suspected homicide<\/a> over the weekend. The president said that the death was linked to \u201cTrump derangement syndrome\u201d in an apparent attempt to take a dig at his critics \u2014 remarks that sparked outrage across the political spectrum<\/a>. <\/p>\n

More on Trump:<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post \u201cI Guess They Used AI or Something\u201d: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked \u201cWords in My Mouth, Literally\u201d<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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