Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-03-12/danny-bones-meet-the-ai-rapper-funded-by-a-far-right-party
- Advance UK paid a secretive AI operation to make its political campaign content
- The same group created Danny Bones, a white-nationalist rapper whose videos target Muslims. They have been viewed millions of times
- Experts said this could mark new ground in the use of AI tools for political ends
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kvasir476@lemmy.world · 145 pts · 162d
No... No, I don't think I will.
redsand@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 161d
I don't think anyone will. Or even can.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 94 pts · 162d
Funny how these fake AI "influencers" and "musicians" always seem to come from the right.
They are so devoid of creativity, and are so incapable making anything worthwhile, that they (try to) have AI do it instead.
Pathetic
devolution@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 162d
Creativity that isn't about pushing or punching down goes against the whole purpose of conservatism.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 161d
It's genuinely shocking when you consider how shitty white boys will try to be a rapper about literally anything. There are multiple guys out there rapping about crypto, NFTs, and $GME. But these fucking losers had to get a computer to spit one out because they can't even manage to be as appealing as a conspiracy theory about a mythical short squeeze that will reset the entire global financial system.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 161d
What's wrong with being a rapper?
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
Rapping takes more skill than just saying a bunch of words fast over the right beat. A lot of middle/upper class white kids do not realize this and are not in the kind of environment to get real feedback on their rap.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 160d
You soud racist as fuck. Skin color has nothing to do with actual skills.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 160d
Hmm, wonder if there were words before the section you decided to quote.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 160d
rest is pretty irrelevant to your racism
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 161d
Because right is more aware of the truth: General populace doesn't care if it's AI or not. All they care about is quality
KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 161d
It's not about quality. Most people use content just to fill a void. Look outside at the people around you. Just about everyone is looking at their phones on rides, listening to podcasts when walking. It's just filler.
The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space. All the manosphere/trad-life/christo-fascist/slopaganda crap flooded the internet, and then it became the norm—not because it was convincing, but because it was recognizable. People parrot what they hear; And that's especially true for the majority of unintelligent folks who wish to masquerade as intelligent. It just so happens the masses heard a lot of "women/people of color/queers are destroying our great white Christian society".
There's nothing about this that's inherent to bigotry or conservative ideology; It's just that USA conservative-aligned businessfolk bought up the outlets and skewed the scene a little bit in the favor of alt-right ideology. Over years that compounded, and now it's seized the entire conversation. Perhaps lefties/liberals were hesitant to use those methods because they play to emotions, and not intelligence; But this is the reality of our current social sphere.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 161d
First this is completely untrue. Internet is open for everyone everyone can find media that suit their preferences . Second, for many years a lot of it was actually dominated by left. It's just that pendulum swings back.
DamnianWayne@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 161d
Algorithms took over searching, flood the algorithm with content and fake views and you dictate what others see.
KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 160d
^ this. The specific example in my mind was TikTok short-form manosphere content that flooded the internet in 2023.
It doesn't even need to have fake views. Content tagged with rising extremist views will naturally foster higher engagement—some of it from the absurdity; some of it from the growing group of people who believe it. Andrew Tate was a large part of promoting violent misogyny and patriarchy. The views never changed; they just became far more familiar.
Cherry@piefed.social · 70 pts · 162d
The irony of a group of frustrated males following the messages of make believe entity.
db2@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 162d
Irony? Repeating pattern is more like it.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 162d
We've reinvented religion
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 161d
Ah yes my favorite. "Rage FOR the machine"
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 161d
Rage from the machine
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 161d
Rage with the machine
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 161d
Rage from within the machine
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Rage fuels the machine
bless@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 160d
Raging Boner for The Machine
Auth@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 161d
Right wing culture is so cooked they have to resort to AI.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 161d
There was like the AI big tiddy goth British girl as well
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
OMG that’s disgusting! Where? Where did they post that? Which site?
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 161d
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/25/ai-generated-british-schoolgirl-becomes-far-right-social-media-meme
Apparently she's a schoolgirl
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 161d
I need the address... For science
bomberesque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Ok I'm interested
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 161d
She's based
LaoiseFu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 160d
There is no culture, only an extreme lack of mental ability, cushioned by laziness - and they can't even make up shitty rhymes about stuff they don't understand,-so this is mana from heaven to bolster half baked beliefs. It's fucking sick because people will swallow this shit, and it will have a real world effect.
4am@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 162d
Since you cannot copyright an AI creation, someone should just make him do like a woke anarchist rap or something.
coalie@piefed.zip · 22 pts · 162d
It would be better if the woke rap was performed by real musicians but then using this ai's images so they could actually copyright the music.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 162d
Impossible copyright infringement of the derivative of the stolen generic. Love it.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
I think we all know that most of the Right's anger is due to repression. I think this AI needs to start confessing to the deep and sordid things that make him so angry. Confessing his deep and all consuming desire for pediatric necrophilia should really unburden his soul.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 161d
Sure. But left hates AI and apparently can't do AI heavy worklfows. This is copyright free for all, and left still can't fire back
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 161d
Ahh, the irony of white supremacists using a form of musical self-expression that black people created: rap.
BranBucket@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 161d
Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.
It's the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they're listening to or how it came about until it's shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.
Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they've resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 161d
Or Creedance Clearwater Revival. Or Guns N' Roses. Those white redcappers hear something "anti-authority" as being exciting and "edgy" and appropriate the songs for their shit movement until they fucking read the lyrics (if they ever bother reading) and realize it's messaged against them. Not to mention most artists are utterly and openly disgusted with MAGAts.
The only has-been celebrity dickheads that actually exist for them are Kid Rock and Steven Seagal.
BranBucket@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
Precisely, but you're giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 161d
"Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen is widely regarded as a patriotic anthem. It's played at so many sporting events and political rallies that most people think it celebrates American pride. But the song itself is about a small-town kid who gets drafted, sent to war, and then comes home to find himself unemployed, homeless, and abandoned by the system that sent him there.
The irony is that media and propagandists grabbed the punchy chorus and stripped it from the rest of the song. An anti-establishment story about neglect and disillusionment that got balefully repurposed as an advertising jingle to drive military recruitment.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 161d
Don't get me started on skinheads. That subculture comes from Jamaica and the music they listen to was created by black people and/or leftists.
Right wingers can't create culture. They can only steal from others.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 161d
And then degrade it and dumb it down.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
At least they left skinheadism for the most part, because it was a very easy identifier of political extremism. Most Hungarian skins at least became "football fans", and no longer use razor to shave their heads. Even heard of some of the remaining ones getting doxxed by more dapper-looking alt-righters, to keep the image of "moderation" they go for.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
That's even worse. They infiltrated another subculture, and a much bigger one - football fans.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
At least they left skinheadism for the most part, because it was a very easy identifier of political extremism. Most Hungarian skins at least became "football fans", and no longer use razor to shave their heads. Even heard of some of the remaining ones getting doxxed by more dapper-looking alt-righters, to keep the image of "moderation" they go for.
db2@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 161d
Or rock, blues, house, country, etc. I think white people can solidly claim bagpipe dirges though, as long as the racists think Scottish people are white enough.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
The Scottish and Italians not being white, I just could never understand. XD Racism's some crazy work.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 160d
The Irish weren't for awhile, either. What's really wild is this case where an Indian man argued that he was white due to being Aryan, but the Supreme Court ruled that his argument did not contain a "common sense" definition of whiteness. So, the highest court in the land determined that whiteness is purely based on vibes.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d
Wow, I had no idea that case existed. It really shows how dumb the concept of race is.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 161d
Maybe they aren't white supremacists and have no issue with other cultures?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 161d
Far-right, aren't white supremacists?
Lol, what dimension are you from?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 161d
Dimension more nuanced than yours. You take extreme minority and apply their shortcomings to half of the political spectrum
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 161d
Half the political spectrum are not far-right. At this stage, it's probably not even a third, depending on where you draw the line. And of those third. what percentage are not (explicitly or implicitly) white supremacists?
Anyway, they're still fascists, even if they're inconsistent ones, so fuck 'em.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 162d
We are getting to the stage where we need laws to say that machines cannot impersonate humans. Synthetic humans are banned.
4am@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 162d
Yes, I’m sure that will be allowed to happen. Right after “you can’t use everyone’s doorbell camera as a giant worldwide face-tracking panopticon” and “PC components should be affordable enough for anyone to buy instead of having to rent cloud desktops from an AI datacenter”
We are way way WAY more fucked than you think already.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 161d
I see a lot more hoodies and face masks in our future.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 162d
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind?
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 161d
Getting to be that sort urgency.
mPony@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
religions have been forged from far stupider fiction
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 161d
Ah, these wankers have to create a new Mosley by artifice.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
I didn't realise that Oswald Mosley was a rapper
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Epic Rap Battles of Alt History: Oswald Mosley vs Huey Long
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
Bizarre... kinda.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
Miklós Horthy joins in, as the protofascist.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 162d
"I like the music people with souls make, but I'd like the lyrics to be more like the gaping black void that is my heart."
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 161d
The worst part about Danny Bones is that there's no way to punch a virtual face.
etherphon@piefed.world · 10 pts · 162d
Eldritch@piefed.world · 5 pts · 162d
The people making the slop absolutely are.
BladeFederation@piefed.social · 3 pts · 162d
Oh there's plenty of people out to get the average person. It's just almost never the scapegoat that a political party selects.
Janx@piefed.social · 9 pts · 161d
So the far right is now following an influencer that doesn't exist... Makes sense, they're also afraid of the Dem, trans, woke, communist, elitist, gay, Muslim, female, leftist, atheist, scientific, immigrants!
Binturong@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 160d
People have to stop asking me to meet this fictitious bigot, the answer will always be no.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 159d
Oh look, rich people now using AI to confuse people into thinking that they are the good guys and obviously the bad guys are... Eh, ah, yes, the immigrants and the gays and such, dooohh!
glimse@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 161d
There's already a white rapper named Bones
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 162d
I love Emilia BTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B4524ot5BM
terrific@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 162d
How come? Fascist AI slop is both fascist and AI slop, so I struggle to find any redeeming qualities.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 161d
Emilia is fascist now LMAO
Brewchin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
From OP's linked article:
So yes, I guess "she" is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn't check).
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 161d
Yeah I misremembered name.
It's a Streisand effect of horrible UK government propaganda game. It was so incomprehensively bad that it was turned into meme
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 161d
That's the spirit. Trump? Fascist. AI? All fascist! Warhammer 40K? DOUBLE FASCIST!
Evotech@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 162d
TLDR?
All I’m seeing is ai music video on ai music.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 161d
It's complete crap. I don't see coherence in the video. It's all a thinly veiled thirst shit.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
Amelia is thirsty fascist slop, derivative and boring like everything right wing. Because conservativism is by definition dull samey grandad politics for dull samey cardboard cutout tryhard emotionally stunted bootlicking johns
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 161d
Everything is fascist to you isn't it? Like everything you disagree with. Amelia meme is reaction for Orwelian propaganda made be leftist people. Did you play the "Pathways" (game amelia character came from)? It literally Orwell novel IRL
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Yeah I played it. She was player bait, a classic femme fatale. You were supposed to end up at the racist rally because look she has fun hair and then oop regret your decisions.
Orwellian is a misnomer here, though. The “game” was literally about getting on with homework instead of being drawn into sketchy shit. Unless you really hate homework and you want to rage against learning idk
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 161d
Nowhere it's mentioned rally is racist. Literally nowhere. There's not a single wrong thing about it, but it's framed as bad. Worse, game implies that you should ignore scientific data (as main character goes through statistics and charts on supposedly harmful site). That's horrifying. Like, Orwelian level of horrifying.
Obey. Never do your own research, obey, rallies bad because we say so, obey, obey, obey.
Orwell 1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual. FFS
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
This is very obviously an English nationalist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, rally.
Whilst it’s pointless to further discuss precise authorial intent, what is interesting is your insistence that this little illustrated story is not referencing the far-right with a character that has been subsequently co-opted by the far-right.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 160d
This isn't far right in the first place. This is norm in poland, where I live. If immigrant crimes, he gets deported. You think Poland is far right fascist regime? Of course it's not. Your interpretation of reality is twisted and incoherent. This is exactly what that propaganda wants you to be - typical Orwelian doublethinker.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
No I think these are cultural differences, this was written for an English audience. Ironically the xenophobic Brexit vote was iirc campaigned largely on sending emigrants back to Poland.
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
No need to scream from the rooftop what a pathetic loser you are.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 161d
And personal attacks again. Welcome to the blocklist