With his claims that Kamala Harris “A.I.’d” an image, Trump is playing a familiar language game.
By Matthew Kirschenbaum
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AI entered the presidential race this week, but not in the way many might have been expecting. In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump falsely claimed that Kamala Harris had “CHEATED” and “A.I.’d” an image showing a large crowd of people cheering for her at a campaign stop in Michigan.
The charge was quickly and easily disproved by news organizations (thousands of supporters were in fact photographed there from multiple angles); this was certainly not the “deepfake” crisis that experts have warned about for years, in which the existence of high-fidelity synthetic media leaves the public without the ability to distinguish between reality and fabrication. Nonetheless, Trump’s claim instantly boomeranged around the internet, amplified not only by his supporters but by pro-Harris accounts (to ridicule and condemn it) as well as technical experts (to fact-check and debunk it).
Link: The Atlantic
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