The DeSantis campaign has stepped up its attacks on former President Donald Trump, using images apparently fabricated by artificial intelligence.
A video attacking Trump posted Monday, as first reported by AFP. DeSantis War Room Twitter account Three images that are believed to have been forged by AI are used.
Fake photos show the former president giving Dr. Anthony Fauci a warm hug and even kissing him. The fake is posted alongside three other photos of Mr. Fauci and Mr. Trump that are real.
DeSantis has previously accused President Trump of “elevating” Fauci during the pandemic.
DeSantis announced his candidacy for the White House late last month. Trump announced in November.
The raid ad opens with footage from President Trump’s NBC reality series “The Apprentice,” which features the former president uttering the show’s famous catchphrase over a rock riff: “You’re fired.”
The words “Reality TV Trump” appear below the exiting trump.
Footage of the 44-second ad then shifts to President Trump in the White House press conference room, praising Fauci as lullabies blare in the background.
President Trump defended his decision not to fire the former director of the National Allergy Institute by saying, “I think he’s a great guy,” in part of the “Real Life Trump” portion of the ad. It is a compilation of video and audio. and infections.
The supposed AI image is part of a photo collage that appears for six seconds during the commercial.
“Mixing a photo that looks real with a fake one is despicable,” Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and an expert in digital forensics, misinformation and image analysis, told AFP.
