A Florida conservative radio talk show host who admitted to using AI-created images of Donald Trump surrounded by gleeful Black people to artificially project the Temperamental Tangelo’s popularity among minorities lost his syndication deal days before an article outlining his actions was published by the BBC.
Mark Kaye, a host from Jacksonville who show was distributed through Cox Media Group, was unapologetic for posting the photos online without noting they weren’t real. “I’m not claiming it is accurate. I’m not saying, ‘Hey, look, Donald Trump was at this party with all of these African American voters. Look how much they love him!'” he said. “If anybody’s voting one way or another because of one photo they see on a Facebook page, that’s a problem with that person, not with the post itself.”
Published Monday, the BBC story on MAGAts utilizing disinformation produced by artificial intelligence to sway voters focuses on photo-like graphics created online to sway voters. But on Friday, Cox announced they were dropping Kaye, who now lists his unspecified outlets as the “Kayetriot Network.” Although the two events are not overtly connected–the network didn’t give a cause for Kaye’s dismissal–it’s difficult to imagine people at the network not catching wind of Kaye’s antics.