Even many Venezuelans who oppose Maduro are also opposed to the United States’ incursion to oust him. Their evidence: good ol’ AI slop. Of course, as anyone versed in the visual language of gen AI will quickly notice, the video is a compilation of low-quality AI clips. “The people cry for their freedom, thanks to the United States for freeing us,” the video’s AI narrator exclaims. As Mexican political journalist José Luis Granados Ceja observed, the AI slop follows decades of efforts by the US government and media to manufacture consent among the western masses for intervention in the oil-rich South American state.