Incident 510: Viral Image of Pope Francis in a Puffer Jacket Revealed to Be AI-Generated

Description: A viral image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer jacket was a deepfake produced by the photorealistic-image-generator Midjourney.

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Alleged: Midjourney developed an AI system deployed by Eliot Higgins, which harmed Pope Francis.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
510
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-03-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies
futurism.com · 2023

Did they fool you? Those mega-viral images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes.

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Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.