Pope Francis

Another AI-generated image has taken social media by storm. After pictures of former US president Trump's arrest went viral earlier this month, an image of.

However, many pointed out the fact that his hands have not been replicated correctly by the AI tool. No way am I surviving the future of technology," she said on the micro-blogging platform. Another AI-generated image has taken social media by storm.

The image, created by an AI (artificial intelligence) image generator, portrays the head of the Catholic Church wearing a pristine long-line puffer coat over ...

Viral images created by AI have already fooled millions on Twitter - and it could soon be even harder to distinguish truth from reality.

He said: “I genuinely laughed and thought what a weird thing for the Pope to wear, I didn’t even realise it was fake. That significantly changes what people believe to be true, and has implications for political positions and democratic processes.” He added: “Some of these images are already very, very hard to determine whether they are real or not. The images can also have a hyper-real “plasticky” quality that points to something being off. However, Mr Adjer said these inconsistencies could be ironed out within a space of months or years. [AI-based technology](https://inews.co.uk/news/google-bard-ai-chatbot-compete-microsoft-chatgpt-2224268?ico=in-line_link) that creates images from simple text prompts.

On March 25, 2023, a photo that appeared to show 86-year-old Pope Francis out and about in a fashionable, white puffer jacket went viral on social media.

[deepfake](https://www.snopes.com/articles/423004/how-to-spot-a-deepfake/) image created via artificial intelligence (AI). [Midjourney](https://www.midjourney.com/home/) is an app that generates images from natural-language prompts (much like [DALL-E](https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2), another well-known AI image-generating app). The image above was part of a [gallery](https://www.reddit.com/gallery/120vhdc) comprising four different views of the pope in a puffy coat. [Stormy Daniels hush-money case](https://www.snopes.com/list/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-rumors/) prompted a flood of [deepfake images](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-getting-arrested-ai-image/) on social media positing imaginative scenarios surrounding such an arrest. It originally appeared on Reddit in the [r/midjourney](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/120vhdc/the_pope_drip/) subreddit. [Pope Francis](https://www.snopes.com/tag/pope-francis/) out and about in a fashionable white puffer jacket went viral on social media.

A star of boy band East 17 has given a hilarious response to an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer coat after Twitter users said it ...

This was after fake photos of the former US president being “ [arrested](https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/donald-trump-arrest-ai-photo-2659635012)” also stunned the internet. [Sign up](https://www.independent.co.uk/newsletters?itm_channel=native&itm_campaign=footer&itm_audience=prospecting&itm_content=newsletters) for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter [Donald Trump sharing realistic, digitally-created pictures](https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-truth-social-ai-2659649785) of himself. [midjourney](https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/wes-anderson-marvel-ai-images)' and was [posted on a subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/120vhdc/the_pope_drip/) on Friday before it went viral on Twitter. [East 17](https://www.indy100.com/topic/east-17). [is fake](https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/pope-white-puffer-coat-memes) – shows the pontiff in his familiar zucchetto skull cap, sporting a large crucifix hanging over the glistening piece of outerwear.

"I fell for that picture of the Pope looking dripped out in a puffer jacket. I feel like a WhatsApp aunty now.” One Twitter user declared.

I fell for that picture of the Pope looking dripped out in a puffer jacket. *