Sorry, Trump — the crowd that gathered to see Kamala Harris wasn’t AI-generated
Former US president Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the 2024 presidential race, of using artificial intelligence to generate a photo of a massive crowd that gathered at one of her rallies in the state of Michigan. However, it turns out that the media took lots of other photos and videos of the same event, which all show the same massive crowd.
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Former US President Donald Trump took to his social media network, Truth Social, on August 10 to claim that a photo of a crowd gathered three days earlier at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in the state of Michigan was generated by artificial intelligence. Harris is Trump’s rival in the 2024 presidential race.
However, the photos and videos recorded by media outlets present at the Harris rally prove that a really big crowd actually did attend the event.
The fact check, in detail
For former President Donald Trump, the popularity of Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris is just an illusion. Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on August 10 to claim that Harris had “CHEATED” to create a “fake crowd picture” of the crowds at her rally in Michigan on August 7.
Unlikely that the image was AI-generated
Another clue can be found if you zoom in on the screens of the smartphones held by spectators. There, you can see a plane, which means that the scene that appears on their screens matches what is happening in front of them. This makes it even less likely that the image is AI generated.
