Incident 510: Viral Image of Pope Francis in a Puffer Jacket Revealed to Be AI-Generated
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Did they fool you? Those mega-viral images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes.
As Snopes reports, that pic of Il Papa that went viral over the weekend is, as lots of people suspected, a …
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It was a cold wind that blew through St. Peter's Square at the Vatican over the weekend, but that didn't deter Pope Francis from taking a stroll outside to greet the faithful, as he often does. When images appeared online showing the 86-yea…
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A cropped portion of an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a puffy coat that went viral in March 2023.
After a realistic AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a puffy coat went viral on social media last year, the Pope himself appar…
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VATICAN CITY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, acknowledging that he was the victim of a deepfake photo, on Wednesday warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence, renewing a call for its worldwide regulation to harness …
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Pope Francis issued a stark warning on Wednesday of the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence --- even noting he was a victim.
"We need but think of the long-standing problem of disinformation in the form of fake news, which today c…