BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.
Mr Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden’s election win in 2020.
But there’s no evidence directly linking these images to Mr Trump’s campaign.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a “strategic narrative” designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community.
A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I’m not claiming it’s accurate.”
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This is for white racist voters. It gives them the excuse to still support Trump.
He could easily pose with a bunch of black people. it wouldn’t be that difficult. But maybe it would be weird
But then he’d have to touch them.
/SARCASM
Why add the /s?
Because someone would inevitably believe I was taking Trump’s side.
This isn’t reddit yet, but with the last big influx, your caution has become wise.
“I’m not a photojournalist,” Mr Kaye tells me from his radio studio.
“I’m not out there taking pictures of what’s really happening. I’m a storyteller.”
“I just happen to be telling fictional stories about real people, but deliberately not telling anyone.”
What a bleeping piece of bleep.
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His eyes are looking in different directions while his face is hanging off his body oddly. It looks like AI, lmao.
His eyes are looking in different directions while his face is hanging off his body oddly.
You’re kind of describing the IRL Trump here.
Are we calling AI still images “deepfakes” now, or is the press just appropriating a phrase to make AI stills more scary? AFAIK a deepfake is far more dangerous, realistic AI video of the subjects doing and/or saying something wholly out of character or worse. A still image is just…fake.
E: y’all downvoting got anything to say other than disagree?
I doubt people will believe this based on how he has treated minorities in the past. Although this really makes me a bit paranoid over figuring out what is real or not anymore for future use of AI for malicious intent. I worry about the lines being blurred.
“If anybody’s voting one way or another because of one photo they see on a Facebook page, that’s a problem with that person, not with the post itself.”
Then why make it?
Because they think people are idiots who will vote for someone because of a picture of them smiling or because they are selling some gaudy sneakers.
Remember, these people think Trump is a genius. For that to be true how dumb must everyone else be?
They have no problems getting votes from people with problems
What gets me about these AI bros is that they could use photoshop to fix the minor flaws like Trumps hand having the wrong color under it (apparently white hand on black skin fucks up the algorithm) but they never do.
They are such talentless hacks that even the most trivial work a real photographer do is insurmountable to them.
they could use photoshop to fix the minor flaws like Trumps hand having the wrong color under it
They could, but that would require them to understand how to use Photoshop rather than just typing in “Trump Black Campaign Popular” into a LLM and weeding out a few images that don’t look entirely surreal.
They are such talentless hacks that even the most trivial work a real photographer do is insurmountable to them.
The scary shit about AI imagining is that, eventually, folks are going to get wise and start smoothing these out (by applying actual labor to the images rather than just letting the computer do all the work).
And then you really will have folks posting “Politician In Front Of A Large Crowd of Unlikely Supporters” images that aren’t easily debunked or dismissed.
You’ll also have a ton of FUD, such that real images that have been touched up by Photoshop are going to routinely be dismissed as AI generated. So someone’s inevitably going to come through with the “Joe Biden wasn’t really at Event X” leading into “Joe Biden has been dead for 10 days and the White House won’t admit it” conspiracies. And that’s going to get very ugly relatively quickly.
I’d actually like to see someone take these photos and use them the opposite way. “Look at Trump giving hand outs to Blacks!”
AI be like : white hand on black skin? Insufficient data in training material
Quagmire: Don’t worry, I’ve got magazines full of that. Giggity.
That’s how we got two tone Malone!
They have zero talent. The only thing we have going for us at this point is how careless and stupid they are with these technologies.
You can tell it’s fake because his hands are normal-size
You can actually tell because his hand is messed up. There’s no nail on the pinky or pointer and the fingers sre blurring into her shoulder.
You can tell it’s fake because he’s interacting warmly with black people.
You can tell it’s fake because he is interacting warmly with
black peopleanyone.Trump is happy to be around any black person willing to listen to his racist tirades and still kiss his ass. Because they’re “one of the good ones.”
Wasn’t Kanye a trump supporter?
Yeah, and a Hitler-lover. I’m not sure that really endears him to the black community.
Do black people not like Kanye?
I don’t listen to his music so I don’t really know. Are most of his fans white? Though if they were nazis you’d think they wouldn’t be fans of a black musician. It’s all so confusing.
Multiple hands and fingers are messed up in these pictures which gives them away. We’ll really be screwed whenever AI gets the hang of fingers. Or if people generating them become smart enough to fix it afterwards.
Another giveaway is the writing on the dude’s hat (upper left). I always check the hands and any text in the image. Those are dead giveaways.
I enjoyed the pic (further down the article) with 3 arms. I mean it’s so obvious, and your brain says there’s something wrong, yet people still believe the bs.
In this case though? Mostly white Trump voters are believing this. Pretty much everyone else realizes it’s bullshit. So it wasn’t even worth the time to make the images.
And everyone has about 87 teeth.
“Trump supporters become their own russian disinformation sources”
BBC, do better. Keep up.
You could do this with some talent and Photoshop.
Yes and now Trump supporters can do it.
The point is now a LOT more people can crank this stuff out, resulting in saturation
Look how happy Trump looks… Wait a second, he isn’t even touching his daughter. No way this is real.
He puts so much God damn orange makeup on he looks like Al Jolson singing My Mammy in blackface
No ring on his finger….
Which is weird, because he kept it on for Stormy.
I’m not claiming it’s accurate
Well he isn’t lying, then
