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Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

  • Advance UK paid a secretive AI operation to make its political campaign content
  • The same group created Danny Bones, a white-nationalist rapper whose videos target Muslims. They have been viewed millions of times
  • Experts said this could mark new ground in the use of AI tools for political ends
Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t realhttps://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-03-12/danny-bones-meet-the-ai-rapper-funded-by-a-far-right-partyOpen linkView original on lemmus.org
lemmy.world

"Meet the AI rapper funded by a far right party"

No... No, I don't think I will.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Funny how these fake AI "influencers" and "musicians" always seem to come from the right.

They are so devoid of creativity, and are so incapable making anything worthwhile, that they (try to) have AI do it instead.

Pathetic

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Creativity that isn't about pushing or punching down goes against the whole purpose of conservatism.

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Voroxpetereply
sh.itjust.works

It's genuinely shocking when you consider how shitty white boys will try to be a rapper about literally anything. There are multiple guys out there rapping about crypto, NFTs, and $GME. But these fucking losers had to get a computer to spit one out because they can't even manage to be as appealing as a conspiracy theory about a mythical short squeeze that will reset the entire global financial system.

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andros_rexreply
lemmy.world

Rapping takes more skill than just saying a bunch of words fast over the right beat. A lot of middle/upper class white kids do not realize this and are not in the kind of environment to get real feedback on their rap.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

white kids do not realize this

You soud racist as fuck. Skin color has nothing to do with actual skills.

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andros_rexreply
lemmy.world

Hmm, wonder if there were words before the section you decided to quote.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

Because right is more aware of the truth: General populace doesn't care if it's AI or not. All they care about is quality

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It's not about quality. Most people use content just to fill a void. Look outside at the people around you. Just about everyone is looking at their phones on rides, listening to podcasts when walking. It's just filler.

The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space. All the manosphere/trad-life/christo-fascist/slopaganda crap flooded the internet, and then it became the norm—not because it was convincing, but because it was recognizable. People parrot what they hear; And that's especially true for the majority of unintelligent folks who wish to masquerade as intelligent. It just so happens the masses heard a lot of "women/people of color/queers are destroying our great white Christian society".

There's nothing about this that's inherent to bigotry or conservative ideology; It's just that USA conservative-aligned businessfolk bought up the outlets and skewed the scene a little bit in the favor of alt-right ideology. Over years that compounded, and now it's seized the entire conversation. Perhaps lefties/liberals were hesitant to use those methods because they play to emotions, and not intelligence; But this is the reality of our current social sphere.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space.

First this is completely untrue. Internet is open for everyone everyone can find media that suit their preferences . Second, for many years a lot of it was actually dominated by left. It's just that pendulum swings back.

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lemmy.world

Algorithms took over searching, flood the algorithm with content and fake views and you dictate what others see.

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^ this. The specific example in my mind was TikTok short-form manosphere content that flooded the internet in 2023.

It doesn't even need to have fake views. Content tagged with rising extremist views will naturally foster higher engagement—some of it from the absurdity; some of it from the growing group of people who believe it. Andrew Tate was a large part of promoting violent misogyny and patriarchy. The views never changed; they just became far more familiar.

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piefed.social

The irony of a group of frustrated males following the messages of make believe entity.

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lemmy.world

Right wing culture is so cooked they have to resort to AI.

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There is no culture, only an extreme lack of mental ability, cushioned by laziness - and they can't even make up shitty rhymes about stuff they don't understand,-so this is mana from heaven to bolster half baked beliefs. It's fucking sick because people will swallow this shit, and it will have a real world effect.

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lemmy.zip

Since you cannot copyright an AI creation, someone should just make him do like a woke anarchist rap or something.

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It would be better if the woke rap was performed by real musicians but then using this ai's images so they could actually copyright the music.

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Impossible copyright infringement of the derivative of the stolen generic. Love it.

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I think we all know that most of the Right's anger is due to repression. I think this AI needs to start confessing to the deep and sordid things that make him so angry. Confessing his deep and all consuming desire for pediatric necrophilia should really unburden his soul.

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Sure. But left hates AI and apparently can't do AI heavy worklfows. This is copyright free for all, and left still can't fire back

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lemmy.world

Ahh, the irony of white supremacists using a form of musical self-expression that black people created: rap.

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BranBucketreply
lemmy.world

Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.

It's the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they're listening to or how it came about until it's shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.

Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they've resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.

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lemmy.world

MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine

Or Creedance Clearwater Revival. Or Guns N' Roses. Those white redcappers hear something "anti-authority" as being exciting and "edgy" and appropriate the songs for their shit movement until they fucking read the lyrics (if they ever bother reading) and realize it's messaged against them. Not to mention most artists are utterly and openly disgusted with MAGAts.

The only has-been celebrity dickheads that actually exist for them are Kid Rock and Steven Seagal.

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BranBucketreply
lemmy.world

Precisely, but you're giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.

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"Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen is widely regarded as a patriotic anthem. It's played at so many sporting events and political rallies that most people think it celebrates American pride. But the song itself is about a small-town kid who gets drafted, sent to war, and then comes home to find himself unemployed, homeless, and abandoned by the system that sent him there.

The irony is that media and propagandists grabbed the punchy chorus and stripped it from the rest of the song. An anti-establishment story about neglect and disillusionment that got balefully repurposed as an advertising jingle to drive military recruitment.

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TimeNaanreply
lemmy.world

Don't get me started on skinheads. That subculture comes from Jamaica and the music they listen to was created by black people and/or leftists.

Right wingers can't create culture. They can only steal from others.

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They can only steal from others.

And then degrade it and dumb it down.

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lemmy.world

At least they left skinheadism for the most part, because it was a very easy identifier of political extremism. Most Hungarian skins at least became "football fans", and no longer use razor to shave their heads. Even heard of some of the remaining ones getting doxxed by more dapper-looking alt-righters, to keep the image of "moderation" they go for.

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That's even worse. They infiltrated another subculture, and a much bigger one - football fans.

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At least they left skinheadism for the most part, because it was a very easy identifier of political extremism. Most Hungarian skins at least became "football fans", and no longer use razor to shave their heads. Even heard of some of the remaining ones getting doxxed by more dapper-looking alt-righters, to keep the image of "moderation" they go for.

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db2reply
lemmy.world

Or rock, blues, house, country, etc. I think white people can solidly claim bagpipe dirges though, as long as the racists think Scottish people are white enough.

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lemmy.world

The Scottish and Italians not being white, I just could never understand. XD Racism's some crazy work.

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zarkanianreply
sh.itjust.works

The Irish weren't for awhile, either. What's really wild is this case where an Indian man argued that he was white due to being Aryan, but the Supreme Court ruled that his argument did not contain a "common sense" definition of whiteness. So, the highest court in the land determined that whiteness is purely based on vibes.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

Maybe they aren't white supremacists and have no issue with other cultures?

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

Dimension more nuanced than yours. You take extreme minority and apply their shortcomings to half of the political spectrum

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Half the political spectrum are not far-right. At this stage, it's probably not even a third, depending on where you draw the line. And of those third. what percentage are not (explicitly or implicitly) white supremacists?

Anyway, they're still fascists, even if they're inconsistent ones, so fuck 'em.

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aussie.zone

We are getting to the stage where we need laws to say that machines cannot impersonate humans. Synthetic humans are banned.

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lemmy.zip

Yes, I’m sure that will be allowed to happen. Right after “you can’t use everyone’s doorbell camera as a giant worldwide face-tracking panopticon” and “PC components should be affordable enough for anyone to buy instead of having to rent cloud desktops from an AI datacenter”

We are way way WAY more fucked than you think already.

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frongtreply
lemmy.zip

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind?

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Skullgridreply
lemmy.world

create a new Mosley by artifice.

I didn't realise that Oswald Mosley was a rapper

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Huey Long

rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascist and a demagogue.

Bizarre... kinda.

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"I like the music people with souls make, but I'd like the lyrics to be more like the gaping black void that is my heart."

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The worst part about Danny Bones is that there's no way to punch a virtual face.

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Oh there's plenty of people out to get the average person. It's just almost never the scapegoat that a political party selects.

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So the far right is now following an influencer that doesn't exist... Makes sense, they're also afraid of the Dem, trans, woke, communist, elitist, gay, Muslim, female, leftist, atheist, scientific, immigrants!

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People have to stop asking me to meet this fictitious bigot, the answer will always be no.

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Oh look, rich people now using AI to confuse people into thinking that they are the good guys and obviously the bad guys are... Eh, ah, yes, the immigrants and the gays and such, dooohh!

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terrificreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

How come? Fascist AI slop is both fascist and AI slop, so I struggle to find any redeeming qualities.

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Brewchinreply
lemmy.world

From OP's linked article:

[The same people use] a second AI persona, a young purple-haired woman called Amelia, who appears in various Danny Bones videos and standalone clips. The character was originally created by the political and media literacy organisation Shout Out UK for a Home Office-funded video game designed to steer teenagers away from extremism – but was then co-opted by the online far right and became a viral sensation.

So yes, I guess "she" is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn't check).

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Yeah I misremembered name.

It's a Streisand effect of horrible UK government propaganda game. It was so incomprehensively bad that it was turned into meme

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That's the spirit. Trump? Fascist. AI? All fascist! Warhammer 40K? DOUBLE FASCIST!

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Evotechreply
lemmy.world

TLDR?

All I’m seeing is ai music video on ai music.

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It's complete crap. I don't see coherence in the video. It's all a thinly veiled thirst shit.

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lemmy.world

Amelia is thirsty fascist slop, derivative and boring like everything right wing. Because conservativism is by definition dull samey grandad politics for dull samey cardboard cutout tryhard emotionally stunted bootlicking johns

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

Amelia is thirsty fascist slop

Everything is fascist to you isn't it? Like everything you disagree with. Amelia meme is reaction for Orwelian propaganda made be leftist people. Did you play the "Pathways" (game amelia character came from)? It literally Orwell novel IRL

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lemmy.world

Yeah I played it. She was player bait, a classic femme fatale. You were supposed to end up at the racist rally because look she has fun hair and then oop regret your decisions.

Orwellian is a misnomer here, though. The “game” was literally about getting on with homework instead of being drawn into sketchy shit. Unless you really hate homework and you want to rage against learning idk

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

Nowhere it's mentioned rally is racist. Literally nowhere. There's not a single wrong thing about it, but it's framed as bad. Worse, game implies that you should ignore scientific data (as main character goes through statistics and charts on supposedly harmful site). That's horrifying. Like, Orwelian level of horrifying.

Obey. Never do your own research, obey, rallies bad because we say so, obey, obey, obey.

Orwell 1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual. FFS

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lemmy.world

This is very obviously an English nationalist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, rally.

Whilst it’s pointless to further discuss precise authorial intent, what is interesting is your insistence that this little illustrated story is not referencing the far-right with a character that has been subsequently co-opted by the far-right.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

This isn't far right in the first place. This is norm in poland, where I live. If immigrant crimes, he gets deported. You think Poland is far right fascist regime? Of course it's not. Your interpretation of reality is twisted and incoherent. This is exactly what that propaganda wants you to be - typical Orwelian doublethinker.

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No I think these are cultural differences, this was written for an English audience. Ironically the xenophobic Brexit vote was iirc campaigned largely on sending emigrants back to Poland.

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lemmy.zip

No need to scream from the rooftop what a pathetic loser you are.

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