AI ‘slopaganda’ and the battle for Philippine political reality - South China Morning Post

Generative AI is supercharging online political warfare in the Philippines. Ordinary social media users now have faster, more visually arresting ways to mock the powerful, while propaganda networks can scale up content production at unprecedented speeds.

What happened

Earlier in May 2024, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, a Duterte ally, became a target. Dela Rosa slipped into the Philippine Senate on the morning of May 11, pursued by government agents and wanted by the International Criminal Court. Within hours, he cast the deciding vote in a chamber leadership coup that handed control to a Duterte ally – and then he simply stayed, as his allies declared him under “protective custody”.