{"id":109841,"date":"2025-09-02T19:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109841\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:39:19","slug":"bbc-verify-live-how-many-students-claim-asylum-in-the-uk-plus-latest-attacks-in-ukraine-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109841\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: How many students claim asylum in the UK, plus latest attacks in Ukraine and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has an \u2018AI enhanced\u2019 image helped fuel online claims about Trump\u2019s health?published at 12:54 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>12:54 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After days of unsubstantiated rumours about the US president\u2019s health, a manipulated picture of Donald Trump began to spread online yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The image distorts the president\u2019s face, especially around his eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some social media users have used this manipulated picture to claim that Trump has suffered a health crisis &#8211; with their posts getting millions of views online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the image was generated by a user of the X social media platform who used artificial intelligence (AI) to \u201cenhance\u201d a long-distance news agency photograph of the president that was taken on Monday as he left the White House to play golf.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A comparison of the original picture of Trump alongside the 'AI enhanced' version\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ef18391e-0612-4d74-a933-630965a18af9.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"1274\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So how does \u201cAI-enhancement\u201d technology actually work?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These tools are trained on lots of high-quality images, which are then blurred so the AI can learn to predict what a clearer version might look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So when you ask an AI tool to \u201cunblur\u201d an image, it is just making a prediction based on the images it has been trained on, says Prof Thomas Nowotny, head of the AI research group at the University of Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One sign that the image has been manipulated are the USA letters on Trump\u2019s hat where you can see the \u201cS\u201d looks distorted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nowotny suggested this could be based on a faint pattern in the original picture and another expert we spoke to thought it was likely just a corruption of the picture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIf you want to enhance your holiday snaps to be sharper, more colourful and crisper and don&#8217;t need them to actually reflect reality, it&#8217;s the perfect tool,\u201d says Nowotny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIf you are working on an image to extract more information about an underlying truth, it is a risky path to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The full original picture of Trump outside the White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dceb9f9d-5edf-4dbe-9a94-7477a1184ae3.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"1078\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has an \u2018AI enhanced\u2019 image helped fuel online claims about Trump\u2019s health?published at 12:54 British Summer Time 12:54&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-109841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}