Following statements by Donald Trump, who announced on Saturday March 18 that he would be “arrested” on Tuesday, images of his arrest circulated on social media, particularly Twitter, over the weekend and immediately went viral. . But these lifelike photos are pure fiction because they were created entirely by an artificial intelligence.
After Donald Trump assured on Saturday March 18 on his social network Truth Social that he would be arrested this Tuesday March 21 on possible charges in a 2016 payment case aimed at breaking the silence Buying a porn actress with whom he would have had an affair, photos showing the “arrest” of the former President of the United States immediately blossomed on social networks.
As revealed by the American magazine Forbes, the first images were posted on Twitter by The Infinite Dude on March 18, without mentioning that they were fake and generated by an AI. The photos released show Donald Trump in a blue suit and red tie being arrested by three police officers at his luxury residence in Mar-a-Lago at night.
While The Infinite Dude’s account has just over 800 subscribers, his footage of Donald Trump’s arrest has been viewed over 600,000 times. Many users were quick to point out certain inconsistencies in these “too good to be true” photos and denounced the use of artificial intelligence in creating these “fake” images.
Another photo with Donald Trump’s “arrest” was posted on March 18 on the Blue Bird social network by O’Keefe Reborn, a political activist and supporter of the parody.
We see the former American President from the front, face closed, like a suspect being photographed by the police taking an anthropometric snapshot. This image is accompanied by an aerial image showing a Manhattan street flooded with crowds and many vehicles, with a building on fire.
Looking at the profile of this user, who defines himself as a satirical guerrilla and thinks the whole world is fake news, there is no doubt that these images are fake. As evidence, the background of Donald Trump’s portrait bears absurd coded inscriptions, a sign that testifies to a photo generated by artificial intelligence or image processing software.
These publications about the “arrest” of the former President of the United States had a snowball effect on social media, leading to a multitude of parodies and other false images generated by artificial intelligence.
But for the time being, Donald Trump has not been arrested or charged, even though police in New York this Tuesday set up police barricades in front of Trump Tower and the Manhattan Courthouse in sight of possible demonstrations in support of the former White House tenant.
If indicted, Donald Trump would become the first former President of the United States to face criminal indictment.