Donald Trump seems to have shared a sequence of pretend photos on his social media web site, suggesting Taylor Swift and a few of her followers are endorsing him for the upcoming election.
The images posted by the previous Republican president on Reality Social included a mock poster of Swift wearing purple, white and blue, with a caption that stated: “Taylor Swift Needs You To Vote For Donald Trump.”
“I settle for!” Mr Trump wrote.
Swift has not publicly endorsed a candidate within the 2024 race however beforehand supported Joe Biden and has criticised Mr Trump prior to now.
Donald Trump shared the photographs on Reality Social, his personal social media platform
The photographs additionally included followers carrying “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts.
Whereas two of the photographs function an actual girl who helps Mr Trump, a lot of the ladies depicted aren’t actual, Sky Information’ US companion NBC Information experiences. At the least 15 are representations of individuals created utilizing synthetic intelligence.
The photographs he shared had initially been posted on X (previously Twitter) by pro-Trump accounts. A type of accounts additionally posted a number of guides to utilizing generative AI instruments on its Substack weblog, in accordance with NBC Information.
“There isn’t a Swifties For Trump motion – however there needs to be,” acknowledged one of many accounts that Trump reposted on Reality Social, in a caption on the AI-generated photos.
Nevertheless, Mr Trump’s marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung advised the Reuters information company that the “Swifties for Trump is an enormous motion that grows greater each single day”, when requested for remark in regards to the pretend Swift picture.
Swift has been performing her ultimate Eras reveals of the European leg of her tour, which is because of end at Wembley Stadium tonight.
Kamala Harris has taken over because the Democratic candidate from president Joe Biden. Pic: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
A few of Swift’s followers beforehand mobilised to assist Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign. The vice chairman is ready to be formally nominated because the 2024 Democratic candidate on the occasion’s nationwide conference in Chicago this week.
Shortly after Mr Biden introduced he was not operating for re-election in July, a bunch known as “Swifties for Kamala” launched on social media. It has greater than 61,000 followers on X and isn’t affiliated with the singer or Harris.
“We don’t signify each Swiftie, however I feel there’s a motive we do not want AI to indicate our assist for Kamala,” the organisation’s co-founder, Irene Kim, advised NBC Information in a press release.
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AI-generated photos and movies of Swift have repeatedly gone viral this yr, together with deepfake sexual photos on X which broke the platform’s pointers.
A number of Swift followers and watchdog teams stated most of the photos posted by Mr Trump gave the impression to be deepfakes generated by synthetic intelligence.
Sky Information has contacted representatives for Swift for remark.
