Trump spreads false conspiracy theory about Harris’ Detroit crowd size

 https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/11/politics/trump-harris-crowd-size-conspiracy-theory/index.html

Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said on LinkedIn that he analyzed the photo with two models designed to detect patterns associated with AI-generated images. Both models found no evidence of AI generation, he said, adding that “the text on the signs and plane [showed] none of the usual signs of generative AI.”

“While the lack of evidence of manipulation is not evidence the image is real,” he said, “we find no evidence that this image is AI-generated or digitally altered.”