{"id":2323029,"date":"2024-08-12T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-baselessly-complains-about-harris-rally-crowd-sizes-being-a-i-d-fake-image-is-election-interference-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:15:37","slug":"trump-baselessly-complains-about-harris-rally-crowd-sizes-being-a-i-d-fake-image-is-election-interference-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-baselessly-complains-about-harris-rally-crowd-sizes-being-a-i-d-fake-image-is-election-interference-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump baselessly complains about Harris rally crowd sizes being \u2018A.I.\u2019d\u2019: \u2018Fake image is election interference\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-baselessly-complains-about-harris-rally-crowd-sizes-being-a-i-d-fake-image-is-election-interference-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2323029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump made unfounded claims regarding Vice President\u200d Kamala\u2064 Harris, suggesting\u200c that she used artificial intelligence to artificially \u200cinflate \u200cthe size of crowds at her rallies. In a post\u2063 on Truth Social, Trump argued that a\u200c photo showcasing a large crowd\u2064 at Harris&#8217;s event \u2063should disqualify\u200c her from consideration because it \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-americans-say-big-tech-censorship-of-hunter-laptop-story-interfered-with-election\/\" title=\"Poll: Majority of Americans Say Big Tech Censorship of Hunter Laptop Story Interfered With Election\">constitutes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-facebook-and-twitter-ceos-testify-before-senate-judiciary-committee\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Facebook and Twitter CEOs Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee\">election interference<\/a><\/a>.\u2062 He accused her\u200b of &#8220;cheating&#8221; and claimed \u2064that the crowd was exaggerated using AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u200b Harris campaign confirmed that the\u2064 image posted by\u200b Trump was taken without any digital alteration, and \u200dindependent fact-checkers \u2064corroborated this, stating that the\u2063 photo had not been manipulated by \u2063AI. The crowd at the rally, which occurred in an airport hangar in Michigan, was real and welcomed Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz upon their\u2062 arrival.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-military-scientists-discussed-weaponizing-sars-coronaviruses-in-document-obtained-by-u-s-government-australian-media\/\" title=\"Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Weaponizing SARS Coronaviruses In Document Obtained By U.S. Government: Australian Media\">digital forensics expert<\/a>\u200c from UC\u2063 Berkeley also\u200d noted that, while a lack of evidence does not guarantee\u2063 that the image \u200cis genuine, there was \u200dno indication that it had\u2062 been\u200d altered or generated using artificial intelligence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump baselessly complains about Harris rally crowd sizes being &lsquo;A.I.&rsquo;d&rsquo;: &lsquo;Fake image is election interference&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1727183\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> played into the false claim that Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>artificial intelligence<\/a> to enhance the size of her crowds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a post to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a>, Truth Social, Trump supported an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-flynns-family-files-75-million-defamation-lawsuit-against-cnn\/\" title=\"Michael Flynn\u2019s Family Files  Million Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN\">online conspiracy theory<\/a> that claims Harris used AI to depict the crowds at her rallies, which he believes should make her &ldquo;disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she &lsquo;A.I.&rsquo;d&rsquo; it, and showed a massive &lsquo;crowd&rsquo; of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN&rsquo;T EXIST!&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112944255426268462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>posted<\/a> Sunday on Truth Social.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the &lsquo;crowd&rsquo; looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake &lsquo;crowds&rsquo; at her speeches. This is the way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING &mdash; And they&rsquo;re even worse at the Ballot Box. She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!&rdquo; Trump continued.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign confirmed to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the photo Trump posted was taken by the Harris campaign and was not altered by AI. There have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-lies-harris-crowd-manipulated-ai-1235077949\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>independent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/leadstories.com\/hoax-alert\/2024\/08\/fact-check-image-of-kamala-harris-august-2024-detroit-rally-was-not-digitally-altered.html\">reviews<\/a> of the photos that determine they were not altered by AI in any way.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd at Harris&rsquo;s rally filled an airport hanger in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Michigan<\/a> and welcomed Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) off Air Force Two last week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the lack of evidence of manipulation is not evidence the image is real,&rdquo; Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a digital forensics expert, said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/hany-farid-40a97935_i-am-fielding-questions-about-this-image-activity-7227793775702503424-0_Qy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>LinkedIn<\/a>, &ldquo;we find no evidence that this image is AI-generated or digitally altered.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are not conspiratorial rantings from the deepest recesses of the internet. The author could have the nuclear codes and be responsible for decisions that will affect us all for decades,&rdquo; David Plouffe, a Harris campaign senior adviser, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidplouffe\/status\/1822696757974663619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>Since Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2017\/01\/the-facts-on-crowd-size\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>inauguration in 2017<\/a>, he has emphasized the crowd size of those who show up for him. Trump recently expressed his frustration with Harris&rsquo;s rallies, saying his &ldquo;Stop the Steal&rdquo; rally drew in more people than that of Martin Luther King Jr.&rsquo;s March on Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-compares-jan-6-crowd-audience-mlk-dream-speech-rcna165894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>recently said<\/a> at his news conference at Mar-a-Lago. &ldquo;If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s <\/em>request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1727183\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1727183\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump unfoundedly criticizes Harris for allegedly using AI to inflate her rally crowd sizes, claiming that &#8220;fake images&#8221; constitute election interference. In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump endorsed a conspiracy theory suggesting that Harris manipulated images of her rally crowds. He argued that this should disqualify her from office because creating fake visuals is a form of election interference. Trump stated, \u201cHas anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she \u2018A.I.\u2019d\u2019 it to show a huge \u2018crowd\u2019 of supposed supporters who didn\u2019t exist!\u201d He continued by accusing Democrats of cheating in elections and asserted that anyone who engages in such deception would cheat in other areas as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign clarified to the Washington Examiner that the photo Trump referenced was taken by them and had not been altered with AI. Independent assessments also confirmed there was no AI manipulation involved. The crowd at Harris&#8217;s recent rally filled an airport hangar in Michigan as she and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) arrived on Air Force Two last week. Digital forensics expert Hany Farid noted on LinkedIn that while lack of evidence does not prove authenticity, there is no indication the image was generated or altered by AI.<\/p>\n<p>David Plouffe, a senior adviser for Harris&#8217;s campaign, remarked on X about the seriousness of Trump&#8217;s claims: \u201cThese are not conspiratorial rantings from the deepest recesses of the internet&#8230;the author could have nuclear codes.\u201d Since taking office in 2017, Trump has frequently highlighted his own crowd sizes compared to others&#8217;, recently expressing frustration over Harris\u2019s rallies by claiming his &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; event attracted more attendees than Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s March on Washington. At a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, he stated confidently about crowd sizes: \u201cNobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me.\u201d The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment from the Washington Examiner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2323030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-montana-rally-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32119,4021,37888,3634],"class_list":["post-2323029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election-interference","tag-harris","tag-rally-crowd-sizes","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-montana-rally-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}