AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions
TL;DR
As the US president struggles to end his war with Iran, and with his approval ratings hitting the lowest levels of his second term, he has in recent weeks posted a series of AI-generated images of himself alongside key historical American figures. Trump knows the power of an image, having posed with everyone from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to Kim Kardashian. How about George Washington?
Nauti's Take
There is an unintended upside to this flood of images: it teaches millions of people, very fast, that a photo can come straight out of a model. The risk is the flip side of that same habituation, because once AI composites are routine output from the White House, genuine footage loses evidentiary weight too.
For anyone who works with proof for a living, provenance checking moves from optional to baseline.
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