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AI-enhanced video from the White House Correspondents’ dinner spread confusion online - Poynter

Poynter·Maria Briceño·20 days ago
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Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artificial intelligence to review the video caused more confusion, not less. An unedited video from the dinner first appeared online in the hours after the shooting when President Donald Trump  posted  on Truth Social low-quality security footage of a person running through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton hotel as Secret Service agents rushed behind him with guns drawn. Cole Tomas Allen has been  charged  in the incident with attempted assassination. Others used AI to enhance the video Trump shared, and some reshared the edited version without context.…

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