Trump Shares AI-Generated Images Claiming Swifties Are Supporting Him

Former president Donald Trump has shared AI-generated images that falsely assertion Taylor Swift fans are supporting his campaign.

In a station connected Truth Social, Trump shared screenshots of 4 posts connected X that purport to amusement a fig of young women each wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts successful a assortment of antithetic styles. One of the screenshots claimed that Swifties are supporting Trump present aft Taylor Swift canceled her performance successful Vienna owed to information concerns. Another representation included the phrase, “Taylor wants you to ballot for Donald Trump.”

“I accept!” Trump captioned his post.

However, Trump’s station appears to incorporate a substance of existent and AI-generated images that falsely suggest a wide and coordinated question of “Swifties for Trump.” Using a instrumentality created by nonprofit True Media to observe the dispersed of election-related deepfakes, WIRED recovered that galore of the images shared by Trump amusement “substantial grounds of manipulation.”

One of the screenshots Trump shared was from an anonymous pro-Trump relationship with implicit 300,000 followers that regularly posts AI-generated images. Following its station astir “Swifties for Trump,” this relationship shared a follow up post that said the archetypal Swifties for Trump station was “satire.”

While determination doesn’t look to beryllium an progressive “Swifties for Trump” run initiative, determination is an progressive “Swifties for Harris” group. “We bash not correspond each Swiftie, but I deliberation determination is simply a crushed we don’t request AI to amusement our enactment for Kamala,” Irene Kim, co-founder of Swifties4Harris, tells WIRED.

There is astatine slightest 1 nationalist Swiftie for Trump. Among the images shared by Trump connected Sunday connected Truth Social was a existent representation of Jenna Piwowarczyk, who wore a homemade t-shirt to a Racine, Wisconsin Trump rally successful June, emblazoned with the words “Swifties for Trump.” Piwowarczyk is present selling her homemade t-shirts connected Etsy.

Trump has consistently shared AI-generated images. Last week, Trump falsely claimed that the Harris campaign was utilizing AI to artificially inflate assemblage sizes astatine her rallies. Over the weekend, Trump besides posted an AI-generated representation connected X of Harris speaking astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago with a Soviet Union emblem hanging implicit the crowd.

Disinformation experts person warned astir the menace posed to the integrity of elections by generative AI tools. Already this year, WIRED has tracked dozens of examples of contented created utilizing generative AI successful elections crossed the globe.

Swift has not publically endorsed immoderate campaigner for president, but she did endorse President Joe Biden successful 2020. She has besides powerfully criticized Trump: After Trump made his infamous “when the looting starts the shooting starts” remark successful 2020 pursuing Black Lives Matter protests successful enactment of George Floyd, the popular superstar slammed the then-president for having “the nervus to feign motivation superiority” aft “stoking the fires of achromatic supremacy and racism your full presidency.”