Creator of Trump’s Gaza video says AI should be banned in politics

The creator of the disturbing ‘Trump Gaza’ AI-generated video which went viral last month has said he didn’t expect it to end up as part of a ‘propaganda machine’ and insists artificial intelligence should be banned for political use.

Captioned ‘Gaza 2025 – what’s next?’, the video showed AI-generated likenesses of displaced Gazans walking through the rubble before transitioning to a newer, Dubai-esque city.

Skyscrapers bordering the coastline with blue water and palm trees were shown in the fake video, along with Elon Musk munching on a snack of some kind in the sun.

A song singing ‘Trump Gaza is finally here, golden future, a brand new life’ played in the background of the disturbing video.

Trump was even seen next to a woman belly-dancing, as Musk threw money in the air as young children jumped up to catch it.

The video understandably sparked outrage, and Solo Avital, a US-Israeli content creator who works with EyeMix, said he intended the video to be satire when he made it – but not a ‘propaganda machine’.

Atival told Reuters: ‘I believe that AI should be banned by politicians. I mean, if the politicians should do justice for AI in their own lawmaking processes, they should first and foremost ban AI for politicians, or political use.’

He and Ariel Vromen co-founded EyeMix, based out of Los Angeles, explained they were testing a new AI software, Arcane, when they thought: ‘Hey, why don’t we do that? Let’s do a little satire’, after seeing Trump’s comments about the ‘Gaza Riviera’.

Vromen said: ‘The idea was like, how Trump wants to turn Gaza into Vegas. We wanted to have an internal laugh about it. It was a joke.

‘With humor, there is truth, you know, but it was not our intention to be a propaganda machine.’

The duo claim they have no idea how Trump found the video, as they had posted it on their personal Instagram for just a few hours and then circulated it among some friends.

After it got picked up by Trump, Arcana Labs CEO Jonathan Yunger told NBC: ‘The fact that the president took it and posted it as his own, I think, is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen in my life.

‘The video is not breaking any laws, as far as I’m concerned. And artists are going to express themselves. What people decide to do with that, you know, is up to them.’

The video concludes with a large golden statue of Trump in the centre of a city square, and a shirtless Trump and Netanyahu lounging in the sun.

Itwas inspired following a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February, where the president detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip and redevelop the war-torn territory into ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’.

‘Oh I think they’d love to leave Gaza if they had an option,’ said Trump on Tuesday afternoon. ‘Right now they don’t have an option. What are they going to do? They have to go back to Gaza.’

‘I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death.

‘If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.’

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