thewrap.com
08.06.2023 / 16:05
DeSantis Ad Seemingly Uses AI Imagery to Depict Donald Trump Kissing Fauci
AFP, while three of the video’s images are verifiably real, another three “have the hallmarks of AI-generated imagery.”Furthermore, three media forensics experts told AFP the images in question sport the characteristics of AI imagery.The images are used as part of an ad attempting to portray Donald Trump as a weakling incapable of getting rid of Fauci despite his years hosting “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice,” wherein he routinely “fired” people.Donald Trump became a household name by FIRING countless people *on television*But when it came to Fauci… pic.twitter.com/7Lxwf75NQmAs for how experts are contrasting real imagery against fake, it’s all in the details. Beyond the fundamentally hard-to-believe nature of imagery such as Trump kissing Fauci on the cheek, the three images being scrutinized as AI-generated are exceptionally glossy (a hallmark of computer-generated renders), unrealistically posed, sport inaccurate background details and feature unexplainable blurs in key details such as Trump’s hair.However, even with the arguably overwhelming evidence that these images are not real, the experts AFP spoke with struggled to guarantee that there wasn’t a chance the images were, in fact, real.