The Republican presidential candidate has been posting a lot of AI-generated content in recent days.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has posted a fake image on social media suggesting that pop star Taylor Swift and her legion of fans are supporting him in the upcoming US election.
Trump posted what appeared to be an AI-generated deepfake image taken from a right-wing social media account with a history of spreading misinformation, along with the message: “I accept it!”
One photo showed Swift’s fans, known as “Swifties,” smiling and wearing T-shirts that read “Swifties for Trump,” while another showed Swift dressed as Uncle Sam, a World War I recruiting character, urging people to vote for Trump.
A third post, under the tag “satire”, had a fake headline suggesting Swift’s fans supported Trump after her concert in Vienna earlier this month was cancelled after being targeted by hard-line protesters.
Swift, who has not publicly endorsed a candidate in the November presidential election, supported the Democrat in 2020 and publicly criticized Trump during his presidency amid nationwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
“After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism throughout your presidency, do you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence?,” she wrote on X, then known as Twitter, in 2020. “I will be voting to oust you in November.”
Swift has yet to respond to Trump’s post, which is the latest in a series of AI-generated images posted by Trump in recent days, adding further confusion to an already tense presidential campaign as the candidate is known for spreading falsehoods.
On Sunday, he shared an AI-generated image depicting presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaking at the Democratic National Convention’s Communist Caucus in Chicago this week.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2024
Trump has also shared a deepfake video of him dancing to the Bee Gees song “Staying Alive” with billionaire Elon Musk. Musk, the owner of X, is a Trump supporter and last week had a glitchy, two-hour conversation with Trump on the platform.
Trump also falsely claimed last week that a real photo of Harris and running mate Tim Walz, who gathered with thousands of supporters at a campaign rally in an aircraft hangar in Detroit, was generated by AI.
“Did anyone notice Kamala cheated at the airport,” Trump posted on his social media platform, TruthSocial. “There was nobody on the plane and she edited it with an ‘AI’ to show hordes of her so-called followers, who didn’t exist!”
