"The Trump administration has not shied away from sharing AI-generated imagery online, embracing cartoonlike visuals and memes and promoting them on official White House channels. But an edited - and realistic - image of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong in tears after being arrested is raising new alarms about how the administration is blurring the lines between what is real and what is fake."
"David Rand, a professor of information science at Cornell University, says calling the altered image a meme "certainly seems like an attempt to cast it as a joke or humorous post, like their prior cartoons. This presumably aims to shield them from criticism for posting manipulated media." He said the purpose of sharing the altered arrest image seems "much more ambiguous" than the cartoonish images the administration has shared in the past."
White House accounts circulated both an original and an AI-edited image of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, with the edited image showing her crying after an arrest. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's account posted the original before the official White House account posted the altered version. The doctored image arrived amid a deluge of AI-edited imagery across the political spectrum following fatal Border Patrol shootings in Minneapolis. Misinformation experts say such altered media erodes public perception of truth and sows distrust. White House communications staff defended the posts as memes and doubled down when criticized.
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