AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so far and wide as a picture of the pope wearing what can only be described as a swagged-out puffy jacket.
The picture seems to have been first posted online on Friday, submitted to a subreddit for the AI image generator Midjourney. Over the weekend, it spread on Twitter and other social networks, first as a meme and then as the subject of debunking.
The image is definitely fake. Not only was it posted to the Midjourney subreddit alongside three alternatives but it also contains telltale signs of AI generation, including a number of areas where details are conspicuously smeared.
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