Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work

特朗普发布人工智能编辑的照片，吹嘘白宫修复工作

A ‘before and after’ photo of a freshly painted White House column was modified with AI. President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House — but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a “restored” one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google’s AI detector as “made or edited with OpenAI.”

一张白宫柱子翻新前后的对比照片经过了人工智能处理。唐纳德·特朗普总统在“真实社交”（Truth Social）上发布了一系列展示白宫翻新工程的照片，但其中一张似乎经过了人工智能修改。这张将旧白宫柱子与“修复后”柱子进行对比的照片存在多处差异，并被谷歌的人工智能检测器标记为“由 OpenAI 制作或编辑”。

As pointed out by users on Reddit, the picture of the “restored” column has an uneven number of steps on both sides of the structure. The number of steps also doesn’t match up with the ones in the “before” photo. Additionally, the before and after photos appear nearly identical in angle and detail; the reflection in the windows is nearly the same, and the protective cardboard at the bottom of the column seems to be in the same spot as well. Not to mention that the “newly-painted” one looks unnaturally smooth.

正如 Reddit 用户所指出的，这张“修复后”柱子的照片中，结构两侧的台阶数量不一致。台阶数量也与“修复前”照片中的不符。此外，修复前后的照片在角度和细节上几乎完全相同；窗户里的倒影几乎一模一样，柱子底部的保护纸板似乎也处在同一个位置。更不用说那根“新刷漆”的柱子看起来平滑得极不自然。

The Verge can confirm that the photo posted to Truth Social is flagged as AI-generated when uploaded to Google’s SynthID Detector, which scans images, videos, and audio for an invisible watermark that indicates it was “created or edited” with AI.

《The Verge》可以证实，当将发布在“真实社交”上的这张照片上传到谷歌的 SynthID 检测器时，它被标记为人工智能生成。该检测器通过扫描图像、视频和音频中的隐形水印，来识别内容是否由人工智能“创建或编辑”。

Real pictures show people painting the front of the White House in June, so it’s possible the column actually did get a fresh coat of paint — the White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The SynthID watermark wasn’t detected on other pictures Trump posted, which show the White House facade and heliport.

真实照片显示，六月份确实有人在粉刷白宫正面，因此这根柱子可能确实刷了新漆——白宫方面没有立即回应置评请求。在特朗普发布的其他展示白宫外墙和直升机停机坪的照片中，并未检测到 SynthID 水印。

Trump is no stranger to AI tools, though, as he often posts AI-generated caricatures of himself, while the White House has been known to post racist AI memes and at least one photo deceptively edited to make a protester appear distraught.

不过，特朗普对人工智能工具并不陌生，他经常发布自己的人工智能生成漫画。而白宫也曾被曝发布过种族主义的人工智能模因，以及至少一张经过欺骗性编辑、旨在让抗议者看起来情绪失控的照片。