Large church pastor Jack Graham provided Sunday information to the Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas last weekend when he paused to suggest unusual preaching illustrations. After encouraging people to respond to the killing of conservative Christian activists Charlie Kirk By turning to God, he instructed the congregation to listen to an audio clip for about a minute Kirk Make a short speech.
“What do you listen to Charlie About what happened to him last week,” Graham said.
With the editing encourages listeners to “pick up your cross and go back to battle.” After a few seconds, they stood up in applause.
But the clip they heard wasn’t actually Charlie Kirk From outside the grave. Just like Graham Kirk’s The voice of the chatbot seems to be an AI-generated response Kirk Will say after his death.
It is not clear where the video originated, but at least two other large evangelical Protestant churches – Dream City Church in Arizona and Wake Church in San Marcos, California – were also played during the day’s service. The pastors of the two churches made it clear that the editing was AI. Even so, this part will get applause every time.
The information is part of a wave of AI-generated content that has flooded social media after that Kirk’s Killers, supporters and even Kirk’s former colleagues share images, videos and audio messages that feature cut down activists and are made by artificial intelligence.
In the Angry Kirk’s About his legacy, the most obvious killing and debate on social media platforms, shows a new form of public mourning and memorial, in which the dead are elaborately designed, but totally fictional reconstructions of the AI service.
Images and videos generated by AI Kirk Appearing within hours of his death, some became more and more popular in the next few days. Many feature religious themes, which are Kirk’s own personal and political transformations approaching the modern era of evangelical Christianity.
imagine Kirk In heaven is a common theme. In one clip, it gets hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook and X Kirk As soft piano music plays, stare at the camera.
“I am Charlie. My faith kills me, but now I stand in glory forever.” AI generates Kirk explain.
Fictional Kirk Four historic Christian martyrs and saints were then introduced – Paul, Stephen, Andrew and Peter. These are also characters generated by AI. They briefly introduced their own difficult problems before AI Kirk Urge the audience to take root in the “Church of the Bible”, participate in the “spiritual” battle, and “overwhelm the world with Jesus’ world.”
Other clips are shorter, but more direct. One person describes AI-generated Kirk Take pictures with famous Americans who were assassinated, such as Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, and Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. Kirk Take a photo with historical idols in the cloudy vista, “Knock on the door” plays in the background.
Many AI-generated clips depict Kirk With Jesus Christ. A program Kirk Sitting in the same tent he was shot but then suddenly jumped out of his chair and ran down the stairs towards the smiling Jesus. Another one with AI generation Kirk When the Bible flashes on the screen, praying on the park bench, Cece Winans plays “Come Jesus Come” in the background. Finally, a radiant Jesus arrived and two people hugged.
Another show Jesus and Kirkholding a hat that makes America great again, heading towards the camera between the clouds.
“Welcome, my son,” Jesus embraced AI Kirk. “Your job is done. Take a break.”
Kirk’s former colleagues even used obvious AI-generated images. Andrew Kolvet, who produced ” Charlie Kirk Performance” and has hosted the program several times since Kirk’s killing Kirk With other assassinated Americans in American history such as King and Lincoln, as well as Jesus Christ.
(Image sparks criticism, critics point out real life Kirk Criticize Kim. Martin Luther King Jr.
The descriptions of famous figures who even have relationships with Jesus are hardly rare. But the special use of artificial intelligence commemorates Kirk – Content flooded the internet within hours of his death – possibly the product of the technology’s widespread use among President Donald Trump devotees. These include the Trump administration itself: several times, AI-generated images and memes appeared on official government accounts.
As Charlie WarzelIn the writing on Technology and Media observed in August, “the high resolution, low budget look of the generated-AI image seems to blend with the memetic aesthetics of the Maga movement.”
Warzel added: “At least in the hot swamp of social media, AI art is being coded in magazines. The Republican Party is becoming a party to AI Slop.”
KirkOf course, this is an avid Trump supporter who played a big role in helping the president return to power, and after the activist’s death, some of the AI-generated content is closely related to a conservative cause. For example, many images link Kirk’s death to the stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska Kirk Not long ago with other conservatives Kirk’s Assassinate yourself. A widely shared image shows AI-generated Kirk Zarutska comforts Zarutska while sitting on the bus that was killed. At least one person created a video version of the image, which included “What a great art you are.” Similar AI-generated video displays Kirk Zarutzka hugged on the bus as they both put on the newly grown angel wings.
Another AI-generated video drives a pro-Israeli message – a topic that inspires disagreements among conservatives, and Kirk It was reported that he tried to relieve it shortly before his death.
In the video, AI generates Kirkdecorated with angel wings and a white robe, as he declared: “I am in a better place now, but the United States and Israel will never be the same.” AI Kirk Insisting that both the United States and Israel are based on the basis of “faith, to freedom, family”, a bald eagle soon afterwards stood in front of Israel and the U.S. flags and the bald head landed on his head.
Despite its virality, it is unclear what role these actually enhanced commemorations play in the lives of mourning people Kirk’s die. But the social media boosters of these works often make it up in a cathartic form: On Tiktok, influencer Taylor Diazmercado released a short video last week that reacted to an AI-generated audio clip Kirk – She clearly marked such a label – which will later be used in the church. Speak as a completely fabricated voice Kirk Never said that Diazmercado can be seen crying clearly, often wiping away tears when nodding between sobs.
With 123,000 likes under the videotape as of Wednesday (September 17), she added a brief title: “A man.”
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