DeSantis Campaign Uses AI-Generated Images Of Trump Hugging, Kissing Fauci. More Fake News From the Deep State's Tools
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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"With the ascent of artificial intelligence (AI), it's increasingly difficult to separate fictional images from authentic ones. That makes AI a tempting tool for all sorts of dishonest characters -- like politicians.
One of them has already embraced AI's truth-bending potential: Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign has circulated a video peppered with fake photos of Donald Trump hugging and kissing the controversial Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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The video includes bona fide images of Trump, but experts say three others are almost certainly AI-generated deep-fakes. "Our results consistently output a decision that these images are fake," Drexel University electrical and computer engineering professor Matthew Stamm told Reuters after using a process to scour the images for artifacts of synthetic image generation. "
"With the ascent of artificial intelligence (AI), it's increasingly difficult to separate fictional images from authentic ones. That makes AI a tempting tool for all sorts of dishonest characters -- like politicians.
One of them has already embraced AI's truth-bending potential: Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign has circulated a video peppered with fake photos of Donald Trump hugging and kissing the controversial Dr. Anthony Fauci.
NPR graphic
The video includes bona fide images of Trump, but experts say three others are almost certainly AI-generated deep-fakes. "Our results consistently output a decision that these images are fake," Drexel University electrical and computer engineering professor Matthew Stamm told Reuters after using a process to scour the images for artifacts of synthetic image generation. "
