The Republican presidential candidate has posted a slew of AI-generated content material in latest days.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has posted on social media pretend photographs suggesting that pop star Taylor Swift and her legion of followers are backing him within the upcoming United States election.
Trump posted the pictures, all of which seem like AI-generated deepfakes taken from right-wing social media accounts with a historical past of sharing misinformation, together with a message saying “I settle for!”
One picture confirmed smiling Swift followers, often called Swifties, sporting T-shirts with the textual content: “Swifties for Trump”. One other depicted Swift dressed as Uncle Sam, a personality from a primary world struggle US Military recruitment poster, urging individuals to vote for Trump.
A 3rd confirmed a pretend headline, beneath the tag “satire”, suggesting Swift followers turned to Trump after one of many singer’s concert events was cancelled within the Austrian capital, Vienna, earlier this month when it was focused by hardliners.
Swift, who has not publicly endorsed a presidential candidate for November’s election, supported the Democratic Get together in 2020. She additionally publicly criticised Trump throughout his presidency amid nationwide protests following George Floyd’s homicide by law enforcement officials.
“After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your total presidency, you could have the nerve to feign ethical superiority earlier than threatening violence?” she posted on X, then often called Twitter, in 2020. “We’ll vote you out in November.”
Swift is but to answer Trump’s publish. The pictures are the newest in a slew of AI-generated photographs posted by Trump in latest days because the presidential candidate, identified for spreading falsehoods, additional muddies the waters in an already fraught presidential marketing campaign.
On Sunday, he shared an AI-generated picture depicting presidential nominee Kamala Harris talking at a communist rally on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, which is being held in Chicago this week.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2024
Trump has additionally shared a deepfake video of him dancing to the Bee Gees’s music Stayin’ Alive with billionaire Elon Musk. X proprietor Musk has endorsed Trump, holding a glitch-filled two-hour dialog with him on the platform final week.
Trump additionally falsely claimed final week {that a} real photograph exhibiting hundreds of supporters attending a marketing campaign rally held by Harris and her operating mate Tim Walz at a Detroit plane hangar was AI-generated.
“Has anybody seen that Kamala CHEATED on the airport?” Trump posted on his social media platform, Reality Social. “There was no person on the aircraft, and she or he ‘A.I.’d’ it, and confirmed an enormous ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!”
