Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
DeSantis Ad Seemingly Uses AI Imagery to Depict Donald Trump Kissing Fauci
thewrap.comAFP, while three of the video’s images are verifiably real, another three “have the hallmarks of AI-generated imagery.”Furthermore, three media forensics experts told AFP the images in question sport the characteristics of AI imagery.The images are used as part of an ad attempting to portray Donald Trump as a weakling incapable of getting rid of Fauci despite his years hosting “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice,” wherein he routinely “fired” people.Donald Trump became a household name by FIRING countless people *on television*But when it came to Fauci… pic.twitter.com/7Lxwf75NQmAs for how experts are contrasting real imagery against fake, it’s all in the details.
Beyond the fundamentally hard-to-believe nature of imagery such as Trump kissing Fauci on the cheek, the three images being scrutinized as AI-generated are exceptionally glossy (a hallmark of computer-generated renders), unrealistically posed, sport inaccurate background details and feature unexplainable blurs in key details such as Trump’s hair.However, even with the arguably overwhelming evidence that these images are not real, the experts AFP spoke with struggled to guarantee that there wasn’t a chance the images were, in fact, real.
They were confident in their assessments but unwilling to rule out the extraordinarily slim chance these images might have some basis in reality.That’s the problem with AI-generated and manipulated imagery; without concrete commentary from the depicted parties, there’s no way of knowing for certain — no matter how unrealistic the contents may be.
And even then, by the time the affected individuals weigh in to confirm or deny visuals, the AI-produced content’s narrative may have already defined the mainstream.
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