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Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation

AI Incident Database · article · Mar 20, 2023 · UTC

AI-generated photorealistic images depicting Donald Trump being detained by the police which were originally posted on Twitter as parody were unintentionally shared across social media platforms as factual news, lacking the intended context.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2023-03-21T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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