SNP Admits Using AI for Picture of John Swinney With Crowd
The Scottish National Party admitted to using AI to edit an image of its leader John Swinney during a campaign event in Edinburgh. The edited photo, meant to highlight a message about lowering bills, featured obscured signs that showed telltale AI artifacts, such as illegible text. Despite the controversy, the SNP claims the people in the image are real and the edits were made to improve visibility.
- ▪The SNP used AI to edit a campaign photo of John Swinney.
- ▪The image showed activists holding signs with illegible text, a common AI artifact.
- ▪The party stated the edits were made to enhance a sun-obscured billboard, not to fabricate people.
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The Scottish National Party has admitted using AI for an image of its leader John Swinney in Edinburgh. Online disinformation is rampant on the left… Eagle-eyed observers spotted that the signs held by Swinney’s activist friends have classic AI signs. Not being legible chiefly among them… An SNP spokesman said: “In order to highlight the message that the SNP wants to lower your bills, while the other parties are trying to stop us, our picture was edited quickly to enhance the billboard image which was obscured by bright sunlight. The people in the picture are 100 per cent real.” These are the people who want to control all of the internet to manage facts by the way…
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