Fake images of Trump arrest show 'giant step' for AI's disruptive power (the pics added as a bonus)

[Celerity]

The tech’s capabilities and accessibility have vastly outpaced regulatory and legislative responses, as well as corporate controls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/trump-arrest-deepfakes/

https://archive.is/xAJOa

Eliot Higgins, the founder of the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat, was reading this week about the expected indictment of Donald Trump when he decided he wanted to visualize it. He turned to an AI art generator, giving the technology simple prompts, such as, “Donald Trump falling down while being arrested.”

He shared the results — images of the former president surrounded by officers, their badges blurry and indistinct — on Twitter. “Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump’s arrest,” he wrote. “I was just mucking about,” Higgins said in an interview. “I thought maybe five people would retweet it.”

Two days later, his posts depicting an event that never happened have been viewed nearly 5 million times, creating a case study in the increasing sophistication of AI-generated images, the ease with which they can be deployed and their potential to create confusion in volatile news environments. The episode also makes evident the absence of corporate standards or government regulation addressing the use of AI to create and spread falsehoods.

“Policymakers have been warning for years about the potential misuse of synthetic media to spread disinformation and more generally to sow confusion and discord,” said Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “While it took a few years for the capabilities to catch up, we’re now at a point where these tools are widely available and incredibly capable.”

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https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins

[RockRaven]

1. You can tell they are fake right away because TFG's feet are too far off the ground in #1 and #2.

No way his lazy ass can defy gravity by that much even when in full fight-or-flight panic. He'd still be shuffling and shambling.

Also, LOL at how short his forefinger is in #3. Goddamned short-fingered vulgarian.

And while Malaria and Jarvanka look appropriately plasticized, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum look far too clean.

[COL Mustard]

3. Also you will never see

The lardass running. He’d have a stroke after about a block!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

14. yeah... Trump running and physically fighting? no way

[area51]

16. +1 n/t

[MichaelSoE]

18. The dead give-away look at the hands those aren't his tiny little phalanges.

[PSPS]

2. "Giant step?" They're laughably crude and obvious fakes.

[Celerity]

7. they have been viewed tens of millions of times now, counting retweets and other platforms

Closing in on 15 million just from Bellingcat's original tweets.

The articles goes into it where that quote came from.

Part of the point is that it is also training people to not trust anything.

[usedtobedemgurl]

4. A lot of it rings true, but....

Reading a book??? I don’t think so. Looks like it has words instead of pictures.

[dmr]

15. Sure he's reading it. The book is upside down, it's exactly

the way TFG likes to read.

[usedtobedemgurl]

17. Now that's funny!!!! NT

[tanyev]

5. Ha! The Melania pic is perfect.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Thought the same thing

She would love it.

[Faux pas]

6. Lol

Anyone with eyes connected to a working brain know the hump can't move like that

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Trump can't run more than ten feet. Besides low stamina, his moobs would slap him silly.

[Thomas Hurt]

10. I like the ones where the male spawn are sobbing over their lost inheritance...

Ivanka is solid what with hubby's 3B influence peddling proceeds.

[IcyPeas]

11. LOL well, they are pretty good images.

[BannonsLiver]

19. They look cartoonish

[Larry_M]

12. I can't believe how good the technology is getting on these...

I need a little of it on pics of me to take some fat out of my face and waist.

[ornotna]

13. He's driving hard to the paint

Those are hilarious, but obviously fake.