A Time Traveling Superintelligent AI tried to warn about correspondence dinner
A viral conspiracy theory on social media claims a 3D stock image and a single tweet from 2023 predicted the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting involving suspect Cole Allen. Believers argue the image, linked to a fake 'time machine' website, contains hidden messages from a future AI warning about the event. In reality, the image is a widely used 2021 stock photo titled 'Eternal Waterfall' with no connection to time travel or AI.
- ▪A Twitter account named 'Henry Martinez' posted only one tweet on December 21, 2023, saying 'Cole Allen,' the name of the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
- ▪Conspiracy theorists claim the account's header image is a coded message from a time-traveling AI warning of the shooting and the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
- ▪The image is actually a 2021 stock photo by 'Distinct Mind,' titled 'Eternal Waterfall,' used widely online for blogs, posters, and commercial purposes.
- ▪The 'Time Machine' reference comes from a European research group that used the image on a blog post but did not create it or claim time travel capabilities.
- ▪The stock image has been downloaded over 27,000 times and has appeared in contexts ranging from psychedelic therapy to financial blogs.
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Tweets containing an abstract, psychedelic 3D stock image have million and millions of views on X because it is supposedly the key to a superintelligent, time-traveling AI conspiracy that attempted to warn people about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. I’m gonna try to explain the mind-numbing conspiracy theory that has taken over my timeline over the last few hours. A few hours after a gunman was taken into custody Saturday night, X users found an account called “Henry Martinez” that has posted exactly one tweet, on December 21, 2023. The tweet says “Cole Allen,” which is the name of the suspected shooter.
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