Incident #499·Misinformation

Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation

March 21, 202311 reportsView on AIID

Description

AI-generated photorealistic images depicting Donald Trump being detained by the police which were originally posted on Twitter as parody were unintentionally shared across social media platforms as factual news, lacking the intended context.

Actors

Alleged Deployers

eliot-higgins

Alleged Developers

midjourney

Harmed Parties

social-media-users
x-(twitter)-users

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.1. False or misleading information

MIT Risk Profile

AIUnintentionalPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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