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Today, Explained

How an AI pope pic fooled us

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

An AI-generated image of Cool Pope in immaculate drip went viral over the weekend and most everyone thought it was real. The Verge’s James Vincent explains how we should navigate our new internet reality. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Avishay Artsy and Siona Peterous, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.  Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

To explain, Sean Ramos for him, this past Saturday against my better judgment, I was scrolling

0:05.6

the feeds, liking the tweets, and then I saw something glorious.

0:11.1

Cool Pope, Papa Francis, in an epic white puffer.

0:15.4

He's got the cross dangling over the jacket.

0:18.8

The jacket has this inexplicable built-in white belt.

0:23.2

He looks like he's on his way to save humanity from eternal damnation, and he's going to

0:27.1

be warm as hell while he does it.

0:29.3

The tweet I saw captioned it, the boys in Brooklyn could only hope for this level of drip.

0:36.5

Chef's kiss, I sent it to all my Catholics, and then on Sunday I spent less time online,

0:42.1

so it wasn't until Monday morning that I found out that the image was fake.

0:46.4

AI got me, and millions of others.

0:49.8

How we all got fooled by Prada Pope ahead on today's planet.

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