{"id":802016,"date":"2026-07-14T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802016\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:19:08","slug":"theres-no-evidence-this-mitch-mcconnell-photo-is-ai-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802016\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no evidence this Mitch McConnell photo is AI-generated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">A photo shared by US Senator Mitch McConnell showing him alive and recovering after a fall has led to widespread speculation about its authenticity, with some claiming without evidence it is AI-generated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The 84 year-old Republican recently revealed he had been hospitalised after suffering a fall and contracting mild pneumonia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">It followed questions over his health after he hadn&#8217;t been seen in public for weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton explains how we can tell the photo is genuine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Produced by Sophie Bott. Filmed by Meiying Wu. Graphics by Sally Nicholls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo shared by US Senator Mitch McConnell showing him alive and recovering after a fall has led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-802016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}