responded directly to Pushaw's rhino posting. Trump spokesperson Jason Miller highlighted the reports about the images on Twitter Thursday.ĭonald Trump Jr. 'You'll have to ask the campaign,' he said. Wolking declined to answer whether the DeSantis campaign used AI technology on the ad. 'It is 100 percent true that Donald Trump empowered and embraced Fauci - he even gave him a presidential commendation,' he added.
'No campaign has pushed more misleading deepfakes, false photoshops, and outright fabrications than the Trump campaign,' Wolking said. Matt Wolking, a spokesperson for the Never Back Down PAC, which is supporting DeSantis, told The Verge that the Trump campaign's use of deepfakes has been more problematic. Who knows?' Pushaw commented about the clearly fake image. 'I think this might be an AI-generated image. Instead a back-and-forth over the use of the images played out on Twitter.ĭeSantis' Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw tweeted out Thursday a Truth Social post from Trump that showed DeSantis riding a rhinoceros.Ī RINO - a 'Republican in name only' - is a dig against Republicans who are too moderate or not aligned enough with Trump. Neither the DeSantis nor Trump campaigns initially responded to AFP's request for comment. However, on closer inspection, the words behind the two men are jibberish - and not 'The White House: Washington' - what a real photo would show. The photo on the upper lefthand side of the collage also appears to show Trump kissing Fauci on the face in the White House briefing room. 'For example, if you look closely at Donald Trump's hair in the top-left, bottom-middle, and bottom-right images, you can see that it contains inconsistent textures and is significantly blurrier than other nearby content such as his ears or other regions of his face,' he said. 'These images contain many signs indicating that they were AI-generated,' Matthew Stamm, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University, who specializes in detecting falsified images and videos, told AFP.
'It was sneaky to intermix what appears to be authentic photos with fake photos, but these three images are almost certainly AI generated,' Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and expert in digital forensics, misinformation and image analysis told AFP.įarid and two other experts interviewed by AFP noted that the images had unusual characteristics, which often expose photos as being AI creations. The words 'Real Life Trump' were placed over the collage. On closer inspection, what should say 'The White House: Washington' in the press briefing room is jibberish and Trump's hair has 'inconsistent textures' said one expert
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