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A Journalist Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral [yahoo.com]

Deep fakes, or wishful thinking?

Eliot Higgins
        British citizen journalist and former blogger

AI image of Donald Trump getting arrested, surrounded on the ground by a mob of cops, by [yimg.com]
Eliot Higgins

Prosecutors in New York are thought to be on the brink of filing an indictment against Donald Trump over a hush money payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels. It would mark the first time in US history that a president, past or present, would face criminal charges.Many are envisioning — some gleefully — what a Trump arrest would look like. Among them is Eliot Higgins, best known as the founder of open-source investigative journalism website Bellingcat. This week, Higgins used the AI image generator Midjourney to depict Trump’s arrest. He shared 50 images on Twitter, and they quickly went viral.

As a result, he said on Wednesday, Midjourney appeared to have banned him from the service. Midjourney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (The word “arrested” is now banned on the platform.)

No idea what Midjourney is, but if they banned Bellingcat, well, welcome to SoylentNews!

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