In August 2024, reports were widely dispersed on the Web that the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party is falsifying reports of many thousands of rallies in its support. It is argued that subordinate politics using artificial intelligence generated crowds of non -existent people. We checked publications allegedly confirming such statements.
Since August 11, reports are distributed in Runet that there are almost no people at the election rallies in support of Kamaly Harris, and crowds in the photo and video from these events allegedly generate with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Such publications based on the illustration materials cited in them can be conditionally divided into three groups.
The former gives one and/or two photos of people awaiting Harris from the aircraft at the airport in Michigan. About one of the pictures of the Telegram channel of the publication Avia.pro (22,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) wrote: “Harris was accused of using AI to fake the size of the crowd. The network noticed that people are not visible in the reflection of the aircraft. ” Channel "Tucker Carlson for Russia"(57,000 views) said that" Democrats ... forgot to check if the textures sailed where. " August 12 Channel "The ax live”(901,000 views) said that Donald Trump accused his rival in the elections of the publication of photographs generated by artificial intelligence with a huge crowd of supporters. Similar publications appeared in Telegram channels "Special operation z"(75,000 views),"From the scene"(74 000), Full-Time Trading (36,000), "Alexey Pushkov"(13,000) and other channel Lomovka (49,000 views) even claimed that he checked one of the pictures using the Service by Definitely AI Content and received a positive result.
The second group of posts presents a photo allegedly taken at the stadium during one of the rallies of Harris. Showman Andrey Bocharov in his Telegram channel "Bocharik (yeah, the same)”(140,000 views) commented on the picture as follows:“ Scandal in Asashay. It turned out that at the performances of Kamaly Harris, they would finish the audience so that it seemed that the halls were full. Makes AI's ditching, it turns out casually, bad. Trump has cuisines on his rally, and no one goes to the democrats. ” “The fact that the neural network draws as voters of Kamala is personally scared,” the channel says “Pockets without China"(120,000 views). Spoke on this subject and political scientist Nikolai Starikov (19,000 views): “PRAR Kamaly Harris” filled the stadium with supporters using the neural network. It turned out the "face of democracy". " At the same time, the channel "TV"(93,000 views taking into account the repost of the publication"Own correspondent") Added:“ Headquarters Harris later said that the picture with crooked faces is real $". Similar posts appeared in the channels "Nose"(51,000 views),"Freshness"(43,000),"Investor cabinet"(38 000),"Brekotin"(14,000),"ZhS Premium"(11,000), as well as in VKontakte (examples here, here And here). In addition, channels "Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(137,000 views) and"Freshness"(47,000) soon shared a thematic meme that refers to previous statements.
Bloggers also give a video on which the process of generating video with supporters of Harris is allegedly demonstrated. For example, in the Telegram channel Bocharov (135,000 views) He was described as follows: "A video showing a fake crowd standing next to Kamala Harris, when she left the Air Force 2 aircraft, was created in just ten minutes on one laptop." This record was also told in the channels of the TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (113,000 views), "Zuben_co News"(25,000),"Kremlin Mockingbird"(18,000) and PEACHBLOSSOM (14,000).
Pictures at the plane
On August 10, Trump's supporters began to be distributed in the English-language segment of the Internet a couple of photographs allegedly proving the scam of the vice president. For example, blogger Chuck Kallesto wrote In the social network X: "The Harris Enterprise campaign was caught on the use of fake photography of the crowd at the election rally." His tweet gained almost 15 million views, and later Trump himself shared by the screenshot of the post on the social network Truth Social. Commented Record like this:
“Has anyone noticed that Kamala was confusing at the airport? There was nobody near the plane, so it was “nanius” and showed a huge “crowd” of the so -called supporters, but they did not exist! It was handed over by a technical employee at the airport when he noticed a fake photograph of the crowd. But there was nobody there, which was later confirmed by the reflection in the sheathing of the Vice President aircraft. She is a deceiver. Nobody was waiting for her, and the "crowd" looked like 10,000 people! The same thing happens with her false crowds" At performances. So the Democrats win the elections, deceiving. And with balloons for voting, they act even worse. It should be removed from the elections, because the creation of a false image is an intervention in the election. Anyone who does this will deceive everything! ”
In one of the subsequent posts, the ex-President published a picture allegedly taken shortly after landing the side of Harris, and wrote: “Look, we caught her with a fake“ crowd ”. There was nobody there! " After some more Trump declared: "Everything related to Kamala is a fake!"
We are talking about a rally in support of Harris and candidate for the post of vice president Tim Walz, who took place on August 7 in Detroit (Michigan). On numerous Photos And videowhich were removed from different angles by viewers, filming groups American television channels and professional photographers, you can see a large cluster of people. For example, many such pictures are published on the agency website Getty images. According to local data MediaAbout 15,000 people participated in the event. BBC correspondent Sumy Somaskand appreciated The number of supporters of Harris and Waltz: "People were a bit, and the crowd stretched out at the airfield." Democrait Mallori McMurrow from Senate Michigan Commented Trump's statements with the words "e, what?" And published photos and videos from a rally, which shows many other people. “The crowd created by AI was very loud, only now I stopped ringing in my ears from their imaginary screams.” I joked The chairman of the Democratic Party of Michigan Lavor Barnes shared a picture of her speech before many people. To the conclusion that the images were not faked, They came And AFP factor.
According to data BBC, the first photo that Trump wrote about appeared on the social network X on the night of August 7 to 8 to Moscow time, his Published Employee of the campaign headquarters Harris Bhavik Latchia. According to him, the picture was sent by the director for digital technologies of the Michigan Staff Ben Sarl. The authenticity of the photo Confirmed Representatives of the Harris campaign in X, and the BBC factory service checked the metadata of the source image, which states that the photograph was taken on the iPhone 12 Pro Max August 7 at 18:28 local time. “I can confirm that the photo was shot by the employees of the camp headquarters Harris and was not in any way changed by artificial intelligence,” the representative of the vice president told BBC. The staff of the headquarters also sent several other pictures taken by the same person in the same place.
As for the verification conducted by the Telegram channel Lomovka, then it cannot be independent evidence and requires additional arguments. The authors of this resource only analyzed a viral picture using the service Is it ai? And they got the result that with a probability of 79%, the image created AI. Like already It wrote “Verified”, the work of such detectors is imperfect, since they can give out both false positive and false negative results. We loaded the same picture on Is it ai?, and the service found it difficult to give an unequivocal answer (it estimated the probability of using AI at 54%).
Politifact project I paid attentionthat the picture Studied Professor Hani Farid, an analysis of images at the University of California at Berkeley. The expert said: "We did not find any evidence that this image was created using AI or was subjected to digital change."
Bringing the second viral photo, Internet users indicatethat on the sheathing of the Harris aircraft there is no reflection of voters standing in front of the board. For clarity, Trump supporters identified those areas where, in their opinion, people should be reflected in red.
In fact, like explained The Daily Beast photographer Andrew Harnik, the whole thing is in the future. He himself was present at the rally and stated that there were many people there: "The crowd was big, and the photos taken by me posted on the Getty website confirm this." According to Kharnik, he used a zoom object that allows you to shoot an object from afar, but at the same time can give the pictures a “flat” type: as if an object is much closer than it is actually (in this case, a fuselage regarding people). “The plane is actually quite far from the crowd,” Harnik explained.
The photographer’s words were clearly confirmed by the writer Mick West, who published a video mounted from two records from a different angle. “Synchronized Video of the arrival of Harris and Walz in Detroit to a large and very real crowd. Donald Trump claims to be a fake. He is lying, or he was deceived, ” - wrote He is in his twice.
Thus, both distributed pictures with supporters of Harris near the aircraft were not created by neuralities, which is confirmed by numerous media and eyewitnesses, professional photographers and images analysis specialists.
Photo from the stadium
In most cases, in Russian -speaking publications, not a photograph itself is presented, but a screenshot of the English -language post with this picture and/or its fragments. The signature reads: “At yesterday's rally, Harris and Walz was such an energy that I had never seen before. The right is very disliked. " At the same time, in the image of many people sitting on the stands, you can notice distorted faces - one of the main signs of the work of the neural network. In this regard, Trump's supporters once again They accused His rival in fake images from her performances.
Nevertheless, there are no traces of the fact that this image was published by the headquarters of Harris. You can find the source of this photo both by the inverse search by the picture and by keywords from the signature. August 10 on social networks x his Placed Account @sarcasmcat24. His nickname - Dr. Literaleigh a Pheeline (into the Russian game of words can be translated as “Doctor GOOD OF THE NOKOSHO”), and description reads: “Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine, Dr. Pepper. Parody. Kamala - the spondle. " Later, author of the profile repeatedly Recognizedthat it was he who created this image. For example, this is such a rendering left Under the tweet of blogger Blair White, supporting Trump and accusing Harris of fake the picture: “This is a photo that I generated with the help of AI. Use the zoom and see that your faces are not even very well worked out. Yeah, I am leading a parody account and glad that you liked the post! " @Sarcasmcat24 laid out other images created using neural networks, and as with Harris, and with Trump.
Thus, the team of the vice president did not fake this photo with the crowd of their supporters in the stadium. The initial picture was created by the satirical X-account, which its owner has repeatedly confessed.
Video at the plane
On a 12-second video, it is shown how on an empty platform near the landed Harris aircraft, people generated on a computer appear. At the same time, many artifacts of the neural network are noticeable on the record. For example, on all banners and posters, an incoherent text is visible, the ladder expands to the side, and the level of land relative to the side rises. In addition, in the lower part of the video you can consider strange red lines similar to those with which Trump supporters circled some details in the photo mentioned above. These factors indicate that the video was generated on the basis of this picture with the already applied stroke.
In the lower right corner of the video there is an emblem on which it is written: “Snickers für linkshänder. Satire ”, which is translated from German means“ Sneakers for left -handed people. Satire". This is the name of the German humorous Portal, which is presented in several social networks, and the desired video “Checked” found in its account on the social network X (@snickLink). IN Description The profile is a note "Comedian Conspyrologist." There was a record Published On August 11, she was accompanied by the signature: “Dude, I did it on my laptop in about 10 minutes. Imagine what they can do with a couple of millions! #Harris. " Later this video was encouraged, gaining at least 7 million views in X, and on August 12 SnickLink reported About the requests received from the press: “Journalists and factor from Denmark, Greece, Germany, the USA and Brazil fall asleep with spam my unfortunate mailbox for 24 hours in a row! "Why did you do this?" "What is the point?" "Why are you engaged in satire?" "Are you an extremely right conspiracyologist?" 🤣 What has the Internet turned into? We used to have fun here! # (Still having fun!) ” August 13 SnickLink Published A new video with a Harris aircraft: this time, instead of vice president, God descended a ladder Dionysus From the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Thus, the viral video is in no way connected with the Harris team and was not published in the social networks of candidate for the presidency of the United States. The author of the video is the German satirical resource Snickers für Linkshänder, whose works created with the use of AI, Not the first Once distributed on the network without an appropriate context.
Photo on the cover: The collage is “tested” / @bensarle (x) / @sarcasmcat24 (x) / @snickLink (x)
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