Trump posts AI fakes implying Taylor Swift endorsement
Al Jazeera
The Republican presidential candidate has posted a slew of AI-generated content in recent days.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has posted fake images suggesting that pop star Taylor Swift and her legion of fans are backing him in the upcoming United States election.
Trump posted the images, all of which appear to be AI-generated deepfakes taken from right-wing social media accounts with a history of sharing misinformation, along with a message saying “I accept!”
One image showed smiling Swift fans, known as Swifties, wearing t-shirts reading: “Swifties for Trump”. Another depicted Swift dressed as Uncle Sam, a character from a First World War US Army recruitment poster, urging people to vote for Trump.
A third showed a fake headline, beneath the tag “satire”, suggesting Swift fans turned to Trump after one of the singer’s concerts was cancelled in the Austrian capital Vienna earlier this month when it was targeted by hardliners.
