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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Incident ID
510
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-03-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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futurism.com · 2023
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Did they fool you? Those mega-viral images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes.
As Snopes reports, that pic of Il Papa that went viral over the weekend is, as lots of people suspected, a …
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