The fact-checking platform Snopes verified the photos and found them to be false. Author: Taken from twitter
WASHINGTON, March 28. Several bizarre photos of Pope Francis that have caused a stir on social media this weekend are fake and created by artificial intelligence, CNN, Forbes magazine and other international media have explained.
Artificial intelligence is a trend lately, and hundreds of false images are created every day, and many of them are mistaken for the truth on certain Internet portals, comments CNN.
Last week, images of Pope Francis in different situations and outfits walking the streets of the Vatican went viral. The fact-checking platform Snopes has confirmed these photos and found them to be false.
Basically it is an image of Jorge Bergoglio in a white down jacket in the style of a hip-hop artist. The experts explained that this is a deepfake – an image created synthetically using artificial intelligence (AI) technology in order to create false, but very realistic photographs.
One of the easiest ways to determine if an image can be generated by AI is to look at a person’s hands. In addition, it is advisable to pay attention to the eyes, eyebrows and glasses, indicate the sources.
Thousands of social media users accepted these images of Pope Francis in a white down jacket as the truth. Even some celebrities and influencers have retweeted pictures of the Supreme Pontiff.
Deepfakes are images, videos, and audio tracks manipulated by AI. According to Forbes magazine, the image was created using Midjourney, a digital tool that allows you to create incredibly realistic fake images.
Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology advise paying attention to the face of a person who appears in a video or a fake image, and observe how almost always the skin seems too soft or very wrinkled.
Images of the Pope in a white coat have gone viral on various social media platforms, sparking a heated debate among netizens who have wondered if the pictures are real and many have wondered how they achieved this result that looks too real.
Some of the errors in the fake photos are that the religious leader’s glasses are not shaped and blend in with the Pope’s face, and that the tint of the glasses is imperfect.
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