Incident #1699
AI-Generated Images Purporting to Show Donald Trump Kissing White House Aide Natalie Harp Went Viral on Social Media
Description
AI-generated images purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump kissing White House aide Natalie Harp on a golf course spread across social media; one X post received over 10 million views. Forensic analysis and provenance checks indicated the circulating images were synthetic, and the White House called them fake. The original creator remained unidentified.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- mykhailo-rohoza
- synthetic-media-creators
- deepfake-creators
- information-manipulation-actors
- keith-edwards
Alleged Developers
- openai
- chatbot-developers
- large-language-model-developers
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- donald-trump
- natalie-harp
- general-public
- epistemic-integrity
- general-public-misled-by-deepfake-content