BBC Verify ‘Debunks’ Obviously Fake AI Image of European Leaders – Guido Fawkes

BBC Verify ‘Debunks’ Obviously Fake AI Image of European Leaders

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BBC Verify’s live service is busy “debunking” obviously fake AI images. They’re at it again…

The little-read live service today informed viewers that a “widely circulated” image of “European leaders” sitting in a White House corridor meekly is fake:

“First, take a look at the legs – artificial intelligence often struggles with limbs.

In this case, there seems to an extra pair of legs next to French President Emmanuel Macron.

If we zoom in, we can also see the knees of the woman in red seem to blend into each other and there appears to be an extra high-heeled shoe further down.

The pattern on the floor is also inconsistent – another typical issue with AI-generated images.

There’s an odd blue panel at the front of the image and then the pattern seems to become irregular the further away they are from the viewer.

The women in the picture also bear no resemblance to either Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni or European Commission head Ursula Von Der Leyen.

Their clothes are entirely different from what the real leaders were wearing at the White House.”

Verify staff have form on this – talk about overkill. Other “fact checks” were already done by American news websites 18 hours ago…

The image hasn’t been widely circulated and it is obviously AI-generated – no one character apart from Macron has a passing resemblance to any European leader. BBC Verify staff costs: £3.4 million…