The creator of the controversial AI-generated video depicted in the fierce battle-rising Gaza rebuilt in a seaside resort shared by President Donald Trump's official social media accounts, says the video is “a satire about this megalomaniac idea about putting statues.” Guardian Report.
In February, the US president proposed to create a “Middle Eastern Riviera” after the US took over Gaza and resettled the Palestinians elsewhere. Arab leaders adopted the Egyptian reconstruction plan in Gaza earlier this week to avoid resettlement of Palestinians, as opposed to Trump's “Middle Eastern Riviera” vision.
Last week, Trump posted an AI-generated video on social media, where Gazanians living in bombed territory emerge from the caves live on a beach with skyscrapers.
The video has received over 15 million views on Instagram and has been shared thousands of times on Trump's Truth Social Network, which has led to commenters questioning whether the president's account has been hacked.
Talk to a UK news outlet Guardian On Thursday, video creator Solo Avital (Los Angeles-based filmmaker) said he had decided to create a satire about this megalomaniac idea about placing statues. [in Gaza]”While he experimented with the Arcana AI platform.
In an interview with BBCAvital said he and his business partner, filmmaker and screenwriter Ariel Volmen, have come across new technology from an LA-based company called Arcana Labs.
He said he would make something within eight hours.
“My partner […] I was in Las Vegas when the news broke. [of Trump’s Gaza plan]literally at the same time, he called and pointed it to the Las Vegas strip and said to the Las Vegas strip on the Gaza Strip,” he said.
I'm talking NBC News Regarding last week's first concept, Volmen said: “The idea was like Trump wanted to turn Gaza into Vegas. We wanted to have an internal laugh about it. That was a joke.”
He added: “There's truth to humor, but I wasn't going to be a propaganda machine.”
The report said for the pair, the video was about “incorporating Trump's proposal and pushing it to an extreme level of imagination.”
Meanwhile, Avital said BBC: “I'll test it. I'll share it [it with our] His partner added that he posted a video from his Instagram account, which has over 130,000 followers.
“It took me two hours to catch it and when I saw him post it, I called him, I said, 'Ariel, please take it down.' We thought we were going to get into trouble with the president,” he said.
“I thought it would go […] It will anger the White House […] So he beat it, and by then it was too late,” he said.
He added that the “danger point” about videos is that they only tried for eight hours and that if they spent a week on video, “we can't tell if it was AI or video that was filmed.”
According to GuardianAvital said he learned about the video after awakening “thousands of messages” on his phone regarding the president's post.
He said they deleted the video because “it's a bit insensitive and we don't want to side with it.” Avital said he was surprised by the reaction to the video and stated whether it was a show skit Saturday Night Livethe reaction would have been against it.
“Everyone would think it's a joke when he sees how wild this president is and how he's ideas,” he said.
He said the experience “enhanced Spark when all the networks take what they want and thrust the viewers with stories attached” and “how fake news spreads.[s] Public discussion of the rights and mistakes of the generation AI.
“We are storytellers. We are not provocators. We do such satire pieces from time to time. This is the duality of satire. It depends on what context you bring to make punchlines and jokes.
Severe criticism
The video was accused of “absurd” in X's post by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights Francesca Albanese.
“What the new US administration is doing is very clear and strategic. It's called psychological overwhelming. To strike us every day with XXL's bewildered rhetoric and unstable policies “control the script, distract us, disrupt us, normalize absurdity, and destroy global stability (disturbing US control).”
Amnesty International Secretary Agnes Caramad said she “really lacks words. Beyond indecency.”
In Gaza, people watching the video were incredible.
“This Trump video is full of false coys and shows a lack of cultural awareness. Gaza is not a tourist spot like Italy or Spain,” said Nasser Abu Hadade, a 60-year-old resident of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
“What I know about Trump is that he is a strange and bold president who does what he says he does. What matters to him is money and investment. There is no humanity.”
“Gaza requires freedom for young people, open border crossings, jobs, and not a playground for tourism or investment,” she added.
