Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump On Tuesday, an online video was made showing the item being thrown out of the second-floor window of the White House. artificial intelligence, Despite his reporter team Apparently they’ve confirmed the truth of it a few hours ago.
Trump boasts that he is an architectural design expert I will take on a remodeling project at the White HouseAnd after thatHe told reporters he said the video “has to be fake.”
A video circulated on Monday appears to show a small black bag and a long white item thrown out of the building’s east window.
Trump denounced AI videos and said that creating fake videos is one of the drawbacks of technology, but said, “If something happens, if it’s really bad, you need to blame AI.”
Hours ago, the White House apparently confirmed that the video was authentic when asked several news outlets that asked the video “a contractor who was performing regular maintenance while the president was gone.”
The White House did not respond to messages about inconsistencies later Tuesday.
Trump denied opening the windows, saying, “I know all the windows there.” He continued the story of him saying First Lady Melania Trump Recently she complained that she wanted fresh air from the open windows of the White House.
After Trump watched the video on Peter Doocy’s phone from Fox News Channel Reporter, the president said the windows were once again sealed and once again denounced the AI.
“That’s what they do,” he said. “And one of the problems we have with AI is both the good and the bad. If something is really bad, then we just blame the AI.
Hany Farid, an expert on digital forensics and misinformation at the University of California, Berkeley, who reviewed the video, said he would not detect any digital watermarks that are sometimes inserted into images at the time of AI-Generation.
“All the shadows in the scene, including shadows from the thrown bag, are physically consistent. The movement of the wave flag does not have any clever signs you often see in videos that you generate. The overall structure of the White House appears to be consistent, including the flight of the American and Pow/Meer flags,” Farid said in a statement.
Former first lady Michelle Obamawhen she appeared in 2015’s “The Ellen Degeneres Show,” she apparently complained that she couldn’t open the windows to the White House, telling her host that she was looking forward to life after the White House, and she got into the car with the open window and said, “The windows in our house are not open.”
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Associated Press Writer Melissa Goldin from New York contributed to this report.
