Unsurprisingly, considering President Trump’s tendency to post AI slop, the New York Times wasn’t exactly keen on publishing his supposed photo of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima without question. Ultimately, the paper couldn’t verify the image’s authenticity but decided to publish it in the context of his Truth Social post. The Times’ Director of Photography Meaghan Looram detailed their skepticism:
It looked odd: The photo was cropped to an unusual, vertical shape, suggesting that much of the content of the original image had been excluded, and the quality was low. One Times photo editor noted that it looked like a photo of a printout, or a photo of a screen. When run through the same A.I. detector, the image posted by Mr. Trump also left some uncertainty.
[The New York Times]
