Experts say Trump has embraced AI-generated content on social media since 2023, using it to promote his agenda and attack political opponents, while raising concerns about misinformation and the erosion of public trust. His use of the technology has drawn both criticism and imitation, though analysts warn that the spread of AI content in politics risks deepening public cynicism and making it harder to distinguish authentic government communications from fabricated ones.

“I don’t think we want to live in a world where you don’t trust anything that you see,” says Baobao Zhang, Maxwell Dean Associate Professor of the Politics of AI.

“...What kind of worries me is this idea of the collapse of the context of communication when it comes from official government channels. What happens if the government is actually trying to send out a very serious message, alerting the public to maybe a natural disaster or some other serious threat? But then it’s next to posts that are trolling their opponents,” she says.

Read more in the NJ.com article, “How Trump’s AI posts are transforming politics.”