BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.
Mr Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden’s election win in 2020.
But there’s no evidence directly linking these images to Mr Trump’s campaign.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a “strategic narrative” designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community.
A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I’m not claiming it’s accurate.”
Are we calling AI still images “deepfakes” now, or is the press just appropriating a phrase to make AI stills more scary? AFAIK a deepfake is far more dangerous, realistic AI video of the subjects doing and/or saying something wholly out of character or worse. A still image is just…fake.
E: y’all downvoting got anything to say other than disagree?