{"id":218508,"date":"2026-05-22T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:45:15","slug":"spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt and Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">Spencer Pratt and Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 01:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.counterpunch.org\">www.counterpunch.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spencer Pratt&#8217;s municipal campaign for mayor of Los Angeles highlights the potential for AI-generated media to significantly impact political engagement, even when the content feels inauthentic.<\/li>\n<li>Pratt&#8217;s campaign has ignited debate on the problematic future of AI in politics, focusing on deepfakes and their potential to manipulate political discourse through altered voice or image deception.<\/li>\n<li>Pratt proposes expeditious rebuilding of areas devastated by wildfires by ignoring building codes, overlooking more systemic issues like insurance company reluctance to disburse wildfire relief funds.<\/li>\n<li>His stance on homelessness, advocating for arresting individuals based on trespassing laws without acknowledging their systemic roots, suggests a regressive approach reminiscent of historical poorhouses instead of modern public housing.<\/li>\n<li>Pratt&#8217;s campaign reveals wider trends of political exploitation of homelessness and amplifies concerns about the growing role of AI in crafting misleading political advertisements.<\/li>\n<li>If Pratt gains traction, it foreshadows a dystopian future where political campaigns might increasingly utilize AI to project disastrous scenarios and manipulate public sentiment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spencer Pratt and Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2026\/05\/22\/spencer-pratt-and-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 01:49:00 Source Domain: www.counterpunch.org Spencer Pratt&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2026-05-21-at-9.48.30-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218510,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218508\/revisions\/218510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}