Trump's AI fakes aren't made to trick you

Published: 20 August 2024
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A week after Donald Trump falsely accused Kamala Harris’s campaign of using artificial intelligence to fabricate campaign images, he appears to have done just that.

Over the weekend, the Republican presidential nominee shared a pair of posts on his social network, Truth Social, that included AI-generated images: one depicting a hammer-and-sickle flag over a Soviet-style Harris rally, another showing young women in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts. On Sunday, he reposted the Harris image to X and on Monday sent an email to supporters, calling it “the photo Kamala doesn’t want you to see.”

What’s noteworthy isn’t just that Trump is turning to generative AI to blur the truth. It’s the casual, almost mundane way he’s using it so far: not as a sophisticated weapon of deception, but as just another tool in his rhetorical arsenal.

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