An image showing US Vice President Kamala Harris with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is going viral on social media. Many users claim that the image is an old picture of Harris and Epstein together.
A Facebook user posted the image with the caption: Old photos never lie.
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Another Facebook user posted the same image with the claim: What reason would Kamala Harris have for wanting “open borders” when she knows it promotes sex trafficking??Ohhh…That’s right, she was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s girls!!
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above picture and found it to be AI-generated.
Putting the image through Reverse Search, the NM team could not find any relevant picture similar to the viral one or any report featuring the image. Upon closer inspection, several discrepancies became apparent. In the picture, the skin texture and the blurred background appear to be artificial.
Taking a cue from our observations, we ran the image through Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, and found that the image is 99.99% likely to be generated by AI.
To further confirm, we ran the image through another AI-content detection tool, “Is It AI?” The results confirmed that the viral image is AI-generated.
Thus, it is evident that the image does not show Kamala Harris with Jeffrey Epstein. The image is AI-generated.
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