Lydia Thorpe did not call on King Charles. It was all AI

The following is satire. As in, not true. Because some people will think it’s true. So we have to say it’s satire. what is it satire

Despite media claims to the contrary, Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe did not shout when she visited British billionaire Charles Windsor at a Parliament function in Canberra yesterday. There was no such event; Windsor isn’t even in Australia, let alone Canberra. Like the entire ‘royal tour’, footage of the event and Senator Thorpe’s shouts were AI-generated by the media, with the aim of stimulating maximum public attention.

The idea of ​​”Thorpe Calls the King” was conceived as the perfect story for outlets of all ideological persuasions, a crucial requirement given the expense required to produce realistic footage of the senator calling the British monarch in Parliament. Far right Sydney telegraph used it for an article titled “‘Raging’ Thorpe a Royal Nuisance”, stating that “Ms (yes) Thorpe surprised the dignitaries by turning his back on the king”. In its entertainment section, the right Herald Sun reported that “senior members of the Liberal party are now considering a motion of no confidence against Mrs Thorpe”. Nine’s David Crowe ominously reported that “the protest was met with silence from hundreds of guests”.

When writing, Guardian Australia comes to his eighth piece on Thorpe, including one that explains how his protest brought him “face to face with his long-term adversary: ​​the British monarchy”. Meanwhile, Sky News Australia reported that Thorpe had been “educated” by lawyers who pointed out that Thorpe’s claim that Windsor “wasn’t his king” was in fact incorrect, and that Windsor was indeed Thorpe’s king both whether he liked it or not. then seriously reported on the reaction to Thorpe from the UK media.

The media can reflect on a job well done, with something for every reader and viewer, from the scariest geriatric right-winger to the supporters of Blak sovereignty, and without the real cost of a royal visit to Canberra. All the images are computer-generated by AI systems trained on decades of royal visit news and several years of attention-seeking by Thorpe and other obscure members of the Senate.

It is also a welcome triumph after an earlier plan to create footage of Windsor attending a prominent Sydney horse torture event, Mount Everest, fell through due to technical difficulties. After months of preparations, the telegraph had reported as a fact that Windsor would attend the event, as had horse torture industry publications. There was some bad blood in the media after time ran out to produce the footage, and dozens of stories about Windsor “putting the ‘royal’ in ‘Royal Randwick'” have had to be retracted. But it was all smiles yesterday as the media celebrated a surge in clicks and views on the backs of angry racists and earnest progressives.

The result was even more impressive considering that Windsor and his wife are not even in the country, but remain at home in the UK. This is the first genuinely ‘virtual’ royal tour; All images of Windsor and her spouse attending Australian functions have been prepared in advance using the latest AI software to produce near-realistic images of the couple greeting crowds generated by software trained on images of Australians eager for royal visits previous ones