Zany: One down! Earlier today, I published a post containing AI-generated images said to be of crowds at Harris campaign events. The plane photo was one of them.
Debunked!
The photo of the crowd by the Harris/Walz plane was posted on social media with claims that it was AI-generated.
A Getty photographer who was at the rally taking photos has now debunked the false claim.
It all started with the “mules guy”, Dinesh D’Souza. (Get a hobby, dude.)
Read the Daily Beast article after this post from X.
Former President Donald Trump continued his obsession with crowd size on Sunday, claiming photos that showed a large crowd outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Detroit rally last week were AI-generated. But one photographer who was in attendance confirmed to the Daily Beast that the images his camera captured were very real.
“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport?” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. “There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches.”
Trump then shared another photo of the Aug. 7 crowd from a distance and again claimed it was a “fake ‘crowd.’”
Corbin Bolies is a media reporter for The Daily Beast. A University of Florida alum, he previously served as a breaking news reporter for the Beast and worked as a reporter for Gainesville’s local NPR affiliate WUFT.
This article was originally published on The Daily Beast and partially republished here, with permission.
