US EditionTrump’s use of AI images pushes new boundaries, further eroding public trust, experts say
Experts warn White House's use of AI-edited images, including a realistic altered photo of a civil rights attorney, risks eroding public trust and blurring truth, amid rising AI content online.
- Earlier this month, the White House shared a realistic, edited image showing Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney, crying after an arrest, following Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's original post.
- An influx of AI-generated videos has proliferated after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, spreading across social feeds with Immigration and Customs Enforcement action and protests.
- Official spokespeople framed the altered image as a meme, with Kaelan Dorr, White House deputy communications director, writing the memes will continue as the administration embraces cartoonlike visuals and memes on official White House channels.
- Eroding public trust, misinformation experts say AI images from credible sources erode truth perception and fuel institutional crises, leaving people unsure where to find trustable information, researchers including Michael A. Spikes and Ramesh Srinivasan warn.
- Experts predict technical fixes will take time while engagement-driven posts proliferate; Jeremy Carrasco expects provenance metadata adoption to lag at least a year amid engagement-farming social accounts.
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Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say
An edited — and realistic — image of a civil rights attorney in tears after being arrested is raising new alarms about how the government is blurring the line between what is real and what is fake.
White House calls altered, realistic‑looking image it posted a ‘meme’
An edited — and realistic — image of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong in tears after being arrested is raising new alarms about how the administration is blurring the lines between what is real and what is fake.
The White House vows 'the memes will continue,' but misinformation experts say please, make it stop
The Trump administration has not shied away from sharing AI-generated imagery online, embracing cartoonlike visuals and memes and promoting them on official White House channels. But an edited — and realistic — image of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong in tears after being arrested is raising new alarms about how the administration is blurring the lines between what is real and what is fake. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s a…
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Trump’s use of AI images pushes new boundaries, further eroding public trust, experts say
The Trump administration has not shied away from sharing AI-generated imagery online. But an image of a civil rights attorney in tears after being arrested is raising new alarms.
Trump's use of AI images pushes new boundaries, further eroding public trust: Report
The Trump administration has not shied away from sharing AI-generated imagery online, embracing cartoon-like visuals and memes and promoting them on official White House channels. In response to criticism of the edited image of Levy Armstrong, White House officials doubled down on the post, with deputy communications director Kaelan Dorr writing on X that the "memes will continue".
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