Experts and social media detectives take a closer look at Reform deputy leader’s image of an apparent campaign event
After Richard Tice posted a picture of an apparent Reform campaign event on Sunday, experts and social media detectives took a closer look and concluded from a variety of telltale signs that the image had either been edited or generated by artificial intelligence. Here are some of the elements that critics called into question.
One woman has six fingers on one hand and extra long ones on the other. The man in the beige jacket has three extremely long fingers which look like sausages. AI often gets fingers wrong.
The signs are supposed to read “Get Starmer Out” but the text reads more like “Get Stuppence out”. The Reform arrow on many of them is also wonky. AI image programs often struggle with generating or editing text.
Lots of the faces of the campaigners appear smeared and blurred, with one man appearing to have closed, wonky eyes.
