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AI-Generated Images Purporting to Show Donald Trump Kissing White House Aide Natalie Harp Went Viral on Social Media
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In brief
An AI system built by Synthetic media generation technology developers, Synthetic image generation technology developers and 4 others and deployed by Synthetic media creators, Mykhailo Rohoza and 3 others allegedly harmed Natalie Harp, General public misled by deepfake content and 3 others.
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What happened
AI-generated images purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump kissing White House aide Natalie Harp on a golf course spread across social media; one X post received over 10 million views. Forensic analysis and provenance checks indicated the circulating images were synthetic, and the White House called them fake. The original creator remained unidentified.
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Synthetic media creators Mykhailo Rohoza Keith Edwards Information manipulation actors Deepfake creators
- Alleged developer
- Synthetic media generation technology developers Synthetic image generation technology developers OpenAI Large language model developers Deepfake technology developers Chatbot developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Natalie Harp General public misled by deepfake content General public Epistemic integrity Donald Trump
AI systems implicated
Synthetic media generation technologySynthetic image generation technologyOpenAI large language modelsLarge language modelsDeepfake technologyChatGPT image-generation toolsChatGPTChatbots
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Related incidents
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Source record: incident #1699 on the AI Incident Database · all 1 report