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The Daily Article

Trump deepfakes and TikTok’s troubling algorithm reveal our deepest need

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, Daily News, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

While Donald Trump remains a free man as of this writing, that news may come as a shock to millions of people who have already seen pictures of him getting arrested and thrown to the ground by police. It turns out those pictures were the convincing results of an AI art generator. However, as a recent study on the way TikTok promotes suicidal content to children found, fake images should be the least of our concerns.  

Author: Ryan Denison, PhD

Narrator: Chris Elkins

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Go to the daily article.org today to request your copy of the latest biblical insight to tough

0:46.7

questions. Welcome to the Friday, March 24th, 2023 edition of the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is

0:56.9

written by Dr. Ryan Dennison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. While news of

1:03.3

Donald Trump's impending arrest dominated headlines earlier this week, the former president

1:08.3

remains a free man as of this writing. That reality might come as a

1:12.6

surprise, however, for the millions of people who've already seen pictures of him thrown to the

1:18.7

ground and dragged off by police. It turns out those deep fake pictures that went viral

1:25.0

across social media were the work of an AI art generator following

1:29.4

the suggestions of Elliot Higgins, the founder of an open source investigative outlet called

1:35.8

Bellingcat. As Higgins described, I was just mucking about, I thought maybe five people would

1:41.7

retweet it. More than 5.5 million views later, not counting all those who have shared the images across other platforms,

1:50.0

it's safe to say that the images have surpassed his initial expectations.

1:55.0

And while the original post included the caption, making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump's arrest,

2:02.7

to clarify that the images were fake.

2:04.8

That disclaimer was quickly lost as the picture spread.

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