A wave of social media users are coming to the sad realization that the Pope isn’t as stylish as recent photos seem to suggest.
Were you duped too? (Most of us were.) Images of Pope Francis wearing an oversized white puffer jacket took the internet by storm over the weekend, with many online admitting they thought the photos were genuine.
No, the supreme pontiff is not dabbling in high-fashion streetwear. The images, though photo-realistic, were generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Read more: From deepfakes to ChatGPT, misinformation thrives with AI advancements: report The fake images, which originated from a Friday Reddit post captioned “The Pope Drip,” were created with Midjourney, a program that generates images from users’ prompts.