Trump Arrest Deepfake Photos Forecast a Strange and Scary Future

Photos of Donald Trump getting arrested by police officers went viral this week, after the former US president announced it was likely he would get indicted at the Manhattan District Court on Tuesday (March 21). The problem? The photos were actually fakes created in an AI art generator by Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative outlet Bellingcat, using simple prompts like “Donald Trump falling down while being arrested.”