Trump’s AI fakes of Harris and Swift aren’t meant to fool you

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A person wearing a Donald Trump mask looks on outside a rally for the Republican presidential candidate in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Over the weekend, the Republican presidential candidate shared a pair of posts on his social network, Truth Social, that included AI-generated images: one depicting a hammer-and-sickle flag over a Soviet-style Harris rally, another showing young women in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts. On Monday, he reposted the Harris image to X and sent an email to supporters calling it “the photo Kamala doesn’t want you to see.” What’s noteworthy isn’t just that Trump is turning to generative AI to blur the truth. It’s the casual, almost mundane way he’s using it so far: not as a sophisticated weapon of deception, but as […]

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