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\/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><small>President Donald Trump released a photo of the arrest of Cole Allen, who has since been the subject of several fake AI-generated images shared on social media &#8211; Copyright AFP\/File Chris DELMAS<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bill  MCCARTHY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been overrun with low-effort AI fakes inventing biographical details and celebrity connections for the man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump at a Washington press gala Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and senior administration officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner as sounds of gunfire rang from a floor above the ballroom, where the suspect had attempted to sprint past security.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of authorities identifying the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California, AI-generated images depicting him beside numerous celebrities pinballed across Facebook in posts saying he was their \u201cformer driver,\u201d \u201cassistant\u201d or \u201cproduction crew member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An AFP investigation found more than 50 public figures falsely associated with Allen, from actors Tom Hanks and Sydney Sweeney to musicians Chris Brown and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians including former US president Barack Obama and Canada\u2019s Pierre Poilievre were also falsely implicated, as well as Pope Leo XIV and NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie.<\/p>\n<p>Meta did not immediately respond to AFP\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The fakes reflect an online ecosystem saturated with content known as \u201cAI slop.\u201d Once largely focused on celebrities, generative content has quickly scaled to portray individuals like Allen, whose online presence was limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years ago, you probably wouldn\u2019t have been able to make those images of him, because we could only really make compelling fakes of celebrities who had a large digital footprint from which the AI systems had been trained,\u201d said the University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Hany Farid, who is also chief science officer at GetReal Security. \u201cNow, all I need is a single image of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Parnas, an independent journalist whose likeness appeared in AI-enabled posts claiming Allen worked for him, pleaded on Facebook for people to report the \u201ccompletely fake\u201d images.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is extremely dangerous,\u201d Parnas told his followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Designed for virality\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>A separate rush of posts falsely claimed Allen had been on staff for over 40 different professional and collegiate sports teams, with AI-generated visuals dressing him in gear for teams across the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA and NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the renderings appear based on the picture from a tutoring company\u2019s post recognizing Allen as \u201cteacher of the month\u201d in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The template-driven format resembles the output of content mills that mass-produce made-up clickbait stories, said digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis looks a lot like the same content farm behavior, just with AI,\u201d Caulfield told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Recent improvements in AI technologies have made visual fakes easier to create and more convincing, with once-telltale mishaps such as six-fingered hands increasingly less common.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI makes it trivially easy to take existing photos and change their clothes, environment, or to swap out someone else\u2019s face,\u201d said Jen Golbeck, a professor at the University of Maryland\u2019s College of Information. \u201cAs soon as someone gets an idea, they can make it a visual reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive years ago, it would not have been unusual to see people manually photoshopping pictures like the ones we are seeing, but it would never have been at this volume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers expressed fears about the quantity wearing on social media users, who could tire of determining what is real.<\/p>\n<p>AFP documented similar bursts of fakes after other major events, including the US capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in January and Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese things are being designed for virality, and then of course the algorithms pick up on them,\u201d said Farid, from GetReal Security. \u201cIt\u2019s super profitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time there\u2019s a world event, we are just flooded with this kind of nonsense. 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