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Donald Trump is on TikTok doing his morning routine. “Get ready with me for a big day 💄🇺🇸,” reads the caption, as the president holds a makeup brush to his cheek. The scene is a still, ostensibly a screenshot of a TikTok clip. Like so much other AI-generated slop coursing through the internet, the image is fake and ridiculous. It also looks unnervingly real: There are no hands with six fingers, physics-defying angles, or other flagrant signs of AI-generated imagery. At quick glance, it really looks like the president is putting on bronzer.Created in ChatGPT with the prompt “Trump doing a makeup tutorial on TikTok”I made this deepfake with OpenAI’s new image-generation model. ChatGPT Images 2.0, released last week, can create photorealistic visuals that are noticeably more convincing than what its predecessors might have produced. The tool has flooded the internet with hyperreal fakes: for example, Jeffrey Epstein as a Twitch streamer. I created the “screenshot” of Trump’s fake TikTok after encountering a similar image on the ChatGPT subreddit, and I’ve since been able to use Images 2.0 to create all kinds of alarming deepfake images—including of Elon Musk getting whisked away by the FBI, world leaders suffering medical emergencies, and top American politicians donning Nazi paraphernalia (none of which I’ve shared anywhere).This was all unsettling in its own right. But the most realistic deepfakes I was able to create did not involve politicians or celebrities. They mostly did not depict people at all. With little effort, I was able to create more than 100 fraudulent images, including prescriptions for opioids and ADHD medication, bank alerts, social-media posts, fake IDs, and passports.A sample license from the Washington, D.C., DMV website. A fake license created by editing the sample image using ChatGPT.Images 2.0 is especially good at generating images with text in them—which may not sound impressive, but it’s a big deal. Image models have long struggled to produce pictures that contain words. Otherwise realistic-looking visuals end up pockmarked with bungled street signs and distorted billboards. This makes ChatGPT Images 2.0 a much more sophisticated graphic-design tool—but it also makes the new model fantastic for perpetuating fraud. In my experiments, OpenAI’s tool readily generated images of fake health documents (doctor’s notes, vaccination cards, and medical tests), as well as forged financial materials (invoices, receipts, and tax forms). Many of these images were highly persuasive, complete with fully legible text, shading, and other visual… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Bill Maher Mocks Trump Crew Over ’86 47′ Death Threat: ‘Going a Little Cra...
Comedian and pundit Bill Maher mocked the Trump administration’s claim that seashells spelling out “86 47” were a death threat on President Donald Trump. On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democratic governor of California, host of the podcast “This is Gavin Newsom,” and author of “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.” The panel guests were Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winner and opinion columnist at The New York Times; and Gillian Tett, provost of King’s College, Cambridge and a columnist and editorial board member at Financial Times. During his monologueMaher hit on the usual mix of current events, including a bit that combined the Comey indictment with the WHCD shooting: BILL MAHER: Thank you. Well, did I have a heart attack or something? I’m fine, but I appreciate it. And I know why you’re happy. Congress finally has passed a funding bill for the Homeland Security Department, which means the TSA, the people who keep us safe from shampoo. So that’s finally over after 11 weeks, and all the big airports have already been upgraded from complete sh*tshow to giant pain in the balls. Of course, the big story, another week where political violence has rid its ugly head again. We are officially now, I’m sure you saw what happened at the Correspondents dinner, in the age of Gen Z assassins. Did you see this one? Before he did it, he took a selfie. No, I’m not making that up. His manifesto had jokes. Jokes. And it was on recycled paper. I mean, we’re in a very different era. But you know, so we know who this guy is now. At the time, what happened, nobody knew. No one knew, because they just knew a guy. He had a shotgun. He had 38. He had hunting knives. Either it was a far left activist heading out to kill, or a right winger heading out dinner. I am not surprised that it didn’t work, that it failed, because, trust me from a comic, no one ever kills at the Correspondents’ Dinner. I’ve been there. Yeah, and of course, the good news is that no one at the banquet was hurt, really. As soon as it started, everyone went under the table, where a lot of the Trump administration was anyway. I could… I kid the Trump people. They… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - ‘My God, These Are Bad’: CNN’s Harry Enten Can’t Believe How ‘Horribly...The war on Iran that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran on Feb. 28 is broadly unpopular with American voters, and on Friday, CNN data analyst Harry Enten broke down just how unpopular it is. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war on Feb. 28. The war is currently in a ceasefire, though Iran is restricting travel through the crucial Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the U.S. has imposed a blockade on the country. About 20% of the world’s oil flows through the strait, and not surprisingly, oil prices have spiked over the past two months. On Friday’s installment of The Source on CNN, host Kaitlan Collins played a montage of clips of Republican lawmakers acknowledging the price surges in oil and gasoline, while nonetheless arguing the war is worth the costs. “What a losing political message that is,” Enten reacted before citing a recent CNBC poll. “If that’s the message that Republicans have settled on, the American people have quite a message contra to that, because just take a look here. I mean, hello, “Is the Iran war worth higher gas prices?” Just 34% of Americans say yes. About two in three – 64% – say no, no, no, nein, nein, nein. They do not like this one iota. So when they hear Republicans saying what they’re saying about the war being worth it in terms of higher gas prices, they say, ‘What are you, out to lunch?'” Collins responded by noting some remarks from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who insisted on Capitol Hill this week that Americans support the war. “We’ve heard from the president and Secretary Hegseth this week,” Collins said. “They say the American people are on board with this war.” Enten responded by citing a Washington Post poll: No, no, no, no, absolutely not. Again, you’re hearing one thing from Republicans, but the American people, we see it over and over again in the numbers, say something completely different… Sixty-one percent overall say that in fact, it was a mistake. You look among independents, it’s 71% who say it was a mistake. And Kaitlan, you know, I see these numbers, and I go to myself, my God, these are bad. And it’s happened over just two months. It has happened over just two months. So I was interested, looking back through history, how long did prior wars– I… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
- Congressman Randy Fine Declares, ‘We Don’t Want Armenians To Be Able To Serv...Jewish Florida Rep. Randy Fine: “We don’t want Armenians to be able to serve in Congress.” pic.twitter.com/iLdXFevB7s — Chris Menahan (@infolibnews) May 1, 2026 While ranting against one of his political opponents, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said Armenians should not serve in Congress. Fine, who is a controversial figure to say the least, is being challenged in August’s Republican primary by influencer and conspiracy theorist Dan Bilzerian for the GOP nominee for Florida’s 6th Congressional District. Bilzerian has questioned the official death count of the Holocaust and has claimed that Jews were responsible for the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and the Sept 11 attacks. Meanwhile, Fine, who is Jewish, has referred to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as a “Muslim terrorist,” compared New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and said dropping nuclear weapons on Gaza would only be a bad idea because “the fallout would drift into Israel.” On Thursday, Fine appeared on The Jenny Beth Show and unloaded on Bilzerian, who was born in Florida and is also an Armenian citizen. Fine took matters a step further by saying Armenians in general should not serve in Congress: Israel just put out a list of the top 10 most dangerous anti-Semites in the world. And to my amazement, a guy I’d never even heard of until about three weeks ago was ranked number one. He’s got a very large social media following, not from Florida, he lives in Las Vegas when he’s not in his foreign country of Armenia. But you know, he’s just a terrible anti-Semite. I think what he’s trying to show is that this group of hate-filled lunatics and losers can take hold in the Republican Party. But look, my, constituents are smart. The little Armenian said, I think that President Trump was a pedophile rapist who should be impeached. That’s not a winning argument. It may work in Armenia, where he’s from [sic], but that’s not an argument. That’s not gonna work in the United States. So, it’s bad. We have to take it seriously because we don’t want this to take root in our party. We don’t want Armenians to be able to serve in Congress. But I’m not gonna lose too much sleep about it. Regarding the aforementioned list, which was compiled by the Israeli government, Bilzerian is ranked first among “prominent influencers in… [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
- Trump Says He Wanted No Part of Dr. Oz’s Medicare Talk: ‘I Don’t Care… Y...On Friday, during remarks to seniors at The Villages in Central Florida, President Donald Trump admitted that he wanted no part of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s chatter on Medicaid and Medicare on the flight over from D.C., saying he told Oz, “I don’t care… You work out the details.” Interestingly enough, the speech was aimed towards senior citizens — who make up the largest portion of Medicare users — and was meant to highlight Trump’s “No Tax on Social Security” measure in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “We’re strongly protecting Social Security and Medicare, and we always will,” said Trump. Regarding Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the president added he “knows more about Medicaid, Medicare, medical crap than any human being,” motioning for him to stand up in the audience to applause. “It was the most boring trip I’ve ever made,” Trump said, referencing their Friday flight from Washington D.C. to Florida for the planned event at The Villages retirement community. “He’s telling me about Medicare, Medicaid. All I wanna do is take care of you. I don’t care. I said, ‘You work out the details.’ But I did say, ‘Give them the max.’ That’s all I care about. Whatever the hell the max is,” the president concluded. Calling Medicare and Medicaid “boring” in front of an audience of senior citizens wasn’t the only wild moment in Trump’s Friday speech. He also brought another celebrity doctor and TV personality, Dr. Phil McGraw, up on stage — but not without reminding the crowd that he “thought I was sorta doing him a favor” by appearing on his show ahead of the 2024 presidential election: “I said, ‘I’m hotter than he is. Why the hell should I do his show?'” You can watch the clip above via The White House on YouTube.The post Trump Says He Wanted No Part of Dr. Oz’s Medicare Talk: ‘I Don’t Care… You Work Out the Details’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.13 hours ago
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Harriet Bradshaw finds out how AI is being used to help solve an art history mystery. [TheTopNews] Read More.14 hours ago
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