Donald Trump’s supporters are accused of using artificial intelligence to generate false images targeting black voters

There are dozens of photos circulating online showing former President Donald Trump amongst crowds of smiling and laughing black voters. Problem – they are false and were generated by Trump supporters using artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence).

Upon closer inspection, you possibly can tell that these photos are deepfakes. “Weird lighting and too-perfect detail provide clues that they were all generated using artificial intelligence,” he added Related press reports.

Black Voters Matter co-founder Cliff Albright believes this is a component of a “strategic narrative” to portray Trump as popular with members of the Republican Party Black community.

“There have been documented attempts to re-target the Black community, particularly younger Black voters, with disinformation,” he added Albright. Black voters played a key role in President Biden’s victory over Trump in 2020.

There is currently no concrete evidence linking the photos to President Trump campaign. According to BBC investigation“[u]As in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves.”

Not everyone was fooled. Washington resident Wayne L. Smith immediately thought something was mistaken and said NBC News“Everything he does to get black people to like him is fake… Why wouldn’t this photo be fake too? It just didn’t feel right to me.”

“They want our vote, but they don’t know how to get it,” he said Blacksmith. “Biden is not peachy, but he is not Trump. And they know it. That’s why they try everything. Fuss. Fraud. And in my opinion, they only make the situation worse by insulting us.”

Not everyone seems to be as insightful as Smith, and the comments show that many believed this to be true photography.

Florida conservative talk show host Mark Kaye created one of the photos showing “Trump smiles as he puts his arms around a group of black women at an event and shares it on Facebook,” and his over 1,000,000 followers are attached to an article about black voters in support of the GOP candidate for president.

In Facebook comments in regards to the show, many individuals believed it was real photography.

“I’m not a photojournalist,” he said Kaye. “I’m not there taking pictures of what’s really going on. I’m a storyteller… I don’t claim this is accurate. I’m not saying, “Hey, look, Donald Trump was at this event with all these African-American voters.” Look how much they love him!”

“If someone votes one way or another because of a photo they see on a Facebook page, that is the person’s problem, not the post itself,” he continued Kaye.

However, there’s cause for concern. “What about those independent white people who don’t like him and won’t vote for him just because they think he’s a racist?” said Calvin Lawrence, an IBM Training Director for responsible and trustworthy artificial intelligence. “When you see these fake AI-generated videos and images of him surrounded by Black people, they also target these white voters and say, ‘Look.’ I am not a racist. He’s not a racist. They are using artificial intelligence on a larger scale.”

Moreover, experts predict that that is only the start artificial intelligence used to “target specific voter blocs in key swing states, such as Latinos, women, Asian Americans, and older conservatives, or any other demographic group that the campaign seeks to attract, mislead, or scare.” With quite a few elections happening this 12 months in “dozens of countries,” deepfakes are proving to be a world problem.