GTA, AI and “stolen voices”: Benyamin Netanyahu unveils an astonishing campaign video

The Israeli Prime Minister published a video generated by artificial intelligence on his X account on Thursday October 8 to attack two political opponents, Gadi Eisenkot and Avigdor Liberman. The sequence takes up the codes of the famous video game “Grand Theft Auto” or “GTA” which features criminals in an open world, between heists and chases. The montage also transforms the two opponents into gangsters.

On a phone, a message displays: “If you want to become prime minister, start stealing votes from the right.” An instruction then calls for “stealing the votes of residents”. The characters appear to steal ballots from passers-by in the street, collected in a bag marked “Voices of the Right,” before handing them to Mansour Abbas, leader of the Arab Raam party which supports the two-state solution. “Eisenkot and Liberman will create a Palestinian state before the release of GTA 6,” mocks Netanyahu in his publication.

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Two opponents caricatured as gangsters

The former head of the army and leader of the Yashar party, Gadi Eisenkot and the leader of the Israel Beitenou party, Avigdor Liberman, aim to beat Benjamin Netanyahu in the next legislative elections. This vote will be the first organized since the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza and opened other fronts for Israel in the region. If both want to replace the prime minister, neither currently defends the creation of a Palestinian state.

The next and highly anticipated part of the GTA game will be released on November 19, while the Israelis will vote on October 27.