From Reuters
Fact Check: Image of Senator Cory Booker wearing pink shorts is AI-generated
By Reuters Fact Check
An image generated by artificial intelligence showing U.S. Senator Cory Booker in casual clothes, wearing a pair of pink shorts, was published on a satirical website but has been taken seriously online.
Facebook posts sharing the image, showed Booker standing in front of the U.S. Capitol wearing a pink T-shirt and shorts, alongside text reading, in part, “Senator Cory Booker Faces Criticism for Wearing Pink Booty Shorts at Capitol After Dress Code Change...”
Hany Farid, a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab, also said in an email that artifacts in the image are consistent with an image generated by Midjourney and that it has telltale structural problems. “Parts of the Capitol in the background are clearly inconsistent with reference photos of the Capitol,” Farid said...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
