When You Enlarge This “Photo,” Trump Posted,

You’ll Discover An Odd Observation

 

Donald Trump, a former president and current presidential candidate, posted a series of racist and xenophobic remarks about immigration on social media over the weekend. The posts used the campaign’s official “VOTE TRUMP 2024” logo.

One of the pictures, at the very least, wasn’t what it seemed. The image displays a dilapidated-looking hospital with the word “EMERGENCY” scribbled over its facade in crooked red letters. One may see a lengthy line of individuals awaiting admission. Massive typos throughout the picture declare that “KAMALA HARRIS PLEDGED FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS.” It then adds, very menacingly, “THEY’RE COMING TO COLLECT.”

Trump Shared This “Photo,” Which When Enlarged Shows An Odd Observation

The former president and current presidential contender, Donald Trump, made a number of xenophobic and racist comments regarding immigration on social media over the weekend. The official “VOTE TRUMP 2024” campaign logo was utilized in the posts.
At best, one of the photos wasn’t what it seemed like. The picture shows a run-down-looking hospital with the word “EMERGENCY” scrawled in crooked red characters on the facade. There can be a long queue of people waiting to be admitted. The photo has massive mistakes all over it that say, “KAMALA HARRIS PLEDGED FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS.” With an extremely menacing tone, it continues, “THEY’RE COMING TO COLLECT.”

Speaking of hard lines, the hospital building’s big windows don’t follow straight lines and its borders are strangely wavy two additional obvious indications of AI. Just to be sure, there are comparable issues with the structures in the backdrop.

In the “photo,” there are also a number of cars, however the majority of them appear to have melted or somehow transformed into an absurd jumble. There is one car that appears to be an ambulance, but the writing on the roof is utterly unintelligible.

Another dead giveaway? The mangled signage painted onto the roads leading up to the hospital. They’re likely meant to depict medical crosses or directional arrows, but look more like poorly-sketched Xs.
And finally, there are the alleged people themselves, all of whom are just distorted, specter-like blobs.
Using AI to drum up a picture like this is a bizarre choice. After all, if you were to go to any stock image site, you could find thousands of images of hospitals. You could find photos of packed emergency rooms, or hospitals with long lines. Why use AI to whip up a fake image instead and use that completely fabricated image in political content, no less?

Perhaps the Trump campaign went to AI because they were unable to locate an image that they felt captured Scary Immigrant Hospital with the appropriate level of bigotry or apocalyptic fury. Naturally, that’s an implicit acknowledgment that the catastrophe they’re announcing isn’t real; otherwise, they wouldn’t have to fabricate “evidence” with artificial intelligence. (Sincerely, our tips line is always open, and we’re itching to know what prompt they used.)
Perhaps Trump, in spite of his calls for anyone using AI to be disqualified for “election interference” and “cheating,” has shared AI-generated graphics more frequently than ever before, normalizing AI in political materials to the point where his campaign no longer raises an eyebrow.

Alternatively, they don’t feel strongly enough to tell voters that AI is being used. And that seems important, considering that the majority of Americans, according to a survey conducted by the Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute last autumn, think that artificial intelligence should be transparently used in political marketing.
Using AI to create imagined, partisan American realities is a slippery slope and a Pandora’s Box that the Trump team has decided to open wide, given the unreality of elections in an online political era riddled with so much misinformation.