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Viral Image of Pope Francis in a Puffer Jacket Revealed to Be AI-Generated
A viral image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer jacket was a deepfake produced by the photorealistic-image-generator Midjourney.
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-24
- Organisation involved
- Eliot Higgins
- Product, system or model
- Midjourney v5 is an image synthesis service that creates artificially-generated photos based on user prompts.
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