Don't Believe A Word of This!

Jeff and me, old college buddies, met for a drink just before his arrest.

Recently a photo was circulating online showing Hillary and Bill Clinton laughing with Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased POS that everyone loves to hate. It was incendiary because just the day before, Hillary had sworn under oath that she had never even met Epstein! So there she was, caught in another lie.

My husband wondered at the photo's veracity. Checking various sources online, we learned that indeed the photo was a deep fake. Stunned, we wondered just how easy it is to make a phony image and decided to try. So Mitch prompted Grok, the AI app from Elon Musk, to "make a picture of Jeffrey Epstein with this woman," sending along an old (and quite unflattering I might add) photo of me. 

Surely that wouldn't work, we mused. Yet less than one minute later, a reasonably believable photo appeared, which is shown above. I then texted that photo to five of my friends, saying I knew Epstein in college and visited with him shortly before his incarceration. Only one of those friends doubted it, texting back immediately, "Nice AI!" Two others fell for it whole-hog, and one other half-hog.

Here's the thing: Mitch is no expert on how to do this sort of thing, and yet he accomplished the task in no time. Just imagine the results when someone well-schooled in AI manipulation exercises their skills! We can all agree that public trust is over. Be on the alert: Whatever it is, if you can't touch it, taste it or smell it, it's likely not real.