AI-faked images of Donald Trump’s imagined arrest swirl on Twitter
Enlarge / AI-generated photo faking Donald Trump's possible arrest, created by Eliot Higgins using Midjourney v5. (credit: @EliotHiggins on Twitter)
As the world waits to see if former President Donald Trump will actually be indicted today over hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, AI-generated images began circulating on Twitter imagining what that arrest would look like. Showing Trump resisting arrest and being dragged off by police, the realistic but very fake photos have already been viewed by millions.
Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump's arrest," tweeted Eliot Higgins, who is the founder and creative director of Bellingcat, an independent international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists.
In a tweet, Higgins confirmed that he used the impressively realistic AI engine Midjourney v5 to generate the fake images.