Disputes that arose in social media the brainchild of Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, a Dutch investigative reporting team that used the latest version of the Midjourney photo tool to evoke dozens of dramatic images about fictitious detention Donald Trump.
The footage, shared thousands of times, shows a mob of uniformed officers grabbing the Republican billionaire and forcing him to the sidewalk.
Higgins, who also stood for kit images of Putin arrested, tried and then imprisoned, he says he posted the images without malicious intent. He even clearly stated on his Twitter thread that the images were generated by artificial intelligence.
However, according to Higgins, the images were enough to bring the Midjourney server down.
“The portrayal of Trump’s arrest really casually showed how well and badly Midjourney portrayed real scenes,” Higgins wrote in an email. “The images started to form a kind of narrative when I connected the directions with Midjourney, so I just connected them into a narrative and decided to end the story.”
Disinformation experts warn that these images are harbingers of a new reality: waves of fake photos and videos flood social media after major news events, further clouding fact and fiction at critical moments in society.
“It adds noise during crisis events. It also increases the level of cynicism,” said Jevin West, a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle who specializes in spreading disinformation. “You start to lose confidence in the system and the information you get.”
Source: Digital Trends
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