Doctored White House Photo Signals AI-Driven Disinformation in a Protest Case
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The New York Times reports that the White House circulated a manipulated AI photo of protester Nekima Levy Armstrong to depict her as hysterical and an agitator, a manipulation the Times independently verified. The episode raises alarms about the use of AI in official messaging and potential erosion of trust in government, even as Levy Armstrong, arrested at a church protest, faces conspiracy‑against‑rights charges related to the incident.
- ‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo The New York Times
- Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda Electronic Frontier Foundation
- White House’s AI-Edited Arrest Photo Comes Back to Bite Them in Court newrepublic.com
- Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say PBS
- Opinion | The real threat of AI is the collapse of trust Poynter
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