[ExI] Amelia the AI spokesperson

[Adrian Tymes]

To paraphrase one of the comments, for a video game to make a cute
goth girl the symbol of the point of view its makers didn't want
people to align with, was a predictable backfire.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 11:32 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, so let me clarify that as a yank, I do not necessarily have my
> finger in the pulse of politics in the UK. So as far as I can gather,
> there was a videogame released called Pathways which was some government
> propaganda about the UK's immigration policy. Amelia started out as a
> very simply drawn cartoon goth girl with pink hair and a purple dress.
> On the Internet she became the subject of anti-immigration memes which
> used her likeness as multiple artists refined her look, making her
> drawings more detailed and anime-like:
>
> https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-pathways-and-who-is-amelia-the-controversial-memes-about-the-viral-uk-anti-immigration-goth-girl-explained
>
> Then after a suitable corpus of memes featuring Amelia formed around the
> Internet, an X user prompted Grok to look at all the Amelia memes and
> then simulate her and spread her message. This was the result of AI
> bringing a fictional political cartoon/videogame character to life:
>
> https://x.com/i/status/2011978673331609945
>
> It is getting harder to tell actual video recordings from AI-generated
> video content than it is to tell butter from margarine.
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
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