From Full Fact
Image of Donald Trump with teenage girl is likely AI-creation
By Charlotte Green
A picture that supposedly shows Donald Trump with a young girl is being shared on social media, but it is not genuine.
The image has been posted on Threads with overlaid text saying: “Photo of Donald Trump at Epstein’s private island Dancing with a 13 year old girl.
“Trump was in his 50’s when this was taken. what kind of man does that? [sic]”
But this isn’t a real picture, and has been debunked many times before.
Professor Hany Farid, of the University of California, Berkeley, who specialises in digital forensics, misinformation and image analysis, told the Associated Press (AP) that the image has the hallmarks of being created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
These include the girl’s right forearm, which is unnaturally elongated, and her thumb (which can be seen as her hand disappears into the crook of President Trump’s arm) is distorted and lacking detail.
A larger, uncropped version of the same image shows that the hand of the man in the background on the left of the picture is also distorted, and appears to have six fingers...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
