In the past few days, former US President Trump and Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate DeSantis have launched several rounds of scolding wars, and DeSantis public relations team released a video on the 6th, criticizing Trump's poor fight against the epidemic when he was in office.
But careful netizens found that the most controversial "Trump kissing Fauci" scene in this video was not a real photo, but an AI-generated fake news picture.
The picture shows the AI-generated "Trump kisses Fauci", and the picture is taken from the video
For a long time, relatively pro-Republican conservative voters in the United States have been very dissatisfied with Fauci, a medical scientist in charge of epidemic prevention, in this video on the 6th, DeSantis' team deliberately tried to show his unusual intimacy with Fauci in order to accuse Trump of ineffective anti-epidemic, so they chose "Trump kissing Fauci" and pictures of the two hugging.
But careful netizens found that the English spelling of the White House logo behind the picture was not only inconsistent with the real White House logo "The White House, Washington", but also a set of confusing misspellings.
Later, everyone verified that the photo was actually generated by AI, and because the AI system's learning ability was still insufficient, the text of the White House logo was not accurately reproduced.
However, many netizens also said that the AI-generated pictures and real photos in this set of videos are indeed difficult to distinguish between true and false, and some netizens put 3 real pictures and 3 AI-generated pictures together, so that everyone blindly guesses which are real and which are false, and many netizens said that they could not distinguish them without looking carefully.
The three images above are AI-generated images, and the other three are screenshots of real news reports
Earlier, US observers were very concerned that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could exacerbate the spread of disinformation in the 2024 US presidential election. U.S. Representative Yvette Clark also warned in May that if AI technology is used to massively manipulate and deceive voters in elections, it will have serious consequences for U.S. national security.
Now, DeSantis' team is using AI technology to concoct fake photos of Trump hugging and kissing Fauci, and spreading them widely on social media, which may heighten concerns in American society about the negative impact that AI technology may play in the 2024 election.