White House Posts Ghoulish AI Cartoon Showing Woman’s Deportation

The White House appeared to revel in its cruelty when it used an AI-created cartoon to mock a Dominican migrant who was detained by ICE earlier this month.

No one suspected the White House would jump in on this trend of people utilizing ChatGPT’s new and improved image generation technology to create illustrations in the style of Japanese animation outfit Studio Ghibli, the company behind beloved films like “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.”

While the posts ranged from playful recreations of personal photos to disturbingly cheerful renderings of real-life tragedies like Sept. 11, social media staffers for the Donald Trump administration found a particularly vile way to join the conversation on Thursday.

Revisiting a weeks-old post celebrating migrant Virginia Basora-Gonzalez’s arrest, the White House’s official X account retweeted its original announcement with a computer-generated illustration of the weeping woman being handcuffed by an stone-faced immigration officer in front of an American flag.

Almost instantly, disgusted internet users began flooding the replies with outrage.

Prior to the White House sharing its AI Studio Ghibli dupe on Thursday, there was little public attention on Basora-Gonzalez’s arrest.

According to the White House’s original post, the 36-year-old was “a previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking” who was detained in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after reentering the U.S. without legal authorization.

This is not the first time the Trump administration’s social media team has used internet trends to dehumanize people swept up in its brutal deportation agenda.

Last month, White House social media accounts posted a video of migrants boarding a plane which focused on the sounds of jangling shackles and ambient noise from the airport tarmac.

Captioned “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight,” the posts were a ghastly take on a popular style of video which aims to trigger people’s “autonomous sensory meridian response,” that mysteriously pleasing tingly sensation which can be evoked by particular sounds.

See some reactions to the White House’s cruel AI creation here: