As Wired reports, an AI startup called BattlegroundAI promises to use AI to churn out a flood of digital advertisements for progressive political campaigns, claiming on its website that its service can help “develop hundreds of ads in minutes.” The company claims it’s helping smaller, underfunded, left-wing campaigns gain a competitive advantage against higher-dollar rivals, all with the goal of countering MAGA’s political influence. But in an ever-enshittified internet that’s already flooded with a ridiculous amount of stuff — including, increasingly, oceans of low-quality AI-generated content — we gotta say: this sucks. Speaking to Wired, Battleground CEO Maya Hutchinson told Wired that the tool is “kind of like having an extra intern on your team.” It’s also designed only for text campaigns; according to a template available on the company’s website, that includes text-based ads for social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, X-formerly-Twitter, Google Search, YouTube, and Google, as well as programmatic ads. Hutchinson also claims that the AI isn’t designed to fully automate the process, or mass-post its outputs to ad channels without human intervention. “You might not have a lot of time, or a huge team,” the CEO told Wired, “but you’re definitely reviewing it.” But even if there is human review — which is always a big “if” when it comes to AI content workflows — in the process of creating and later publishing Battleground-generated advertising blurbs, the tool is explicitly designed to mass produce political content. It also, crucially, doesn’t include anything in the way of AI watermarks, or any…Democratic Startup Proposes Flooding the Web With AI-Generated Political Ads