The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing. However, while on the one hand there are benefits that technology can bring, on the other hand there is concern about the distortion of reality, for example with the creation of false images. In 2023, some images of great personalities such as the Pope, Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron were created by artificial intelligence and published countless times on social networks.

Check out six images that were created using artificial intelligence tools and traveled around the world.

Former US President Donald Trump has been the subject of several AI-generated images of him at the time of his arrest. One of them is the one that has spread on the Internet. Despite millions of views, the confusing letters in the background indicate that the image is fake. – Photo: NewsSky/Disclosure/ND

Emmanuel Macron was another political leader whose image was created by artificial intelligence. One of them, in which the French president appears amid the unrest, has gone viral. Fact-checking company Full Fact said the image had been widely circulated, prompting comments that the media were ignoring the story – Photo: NewsSky/Disclosure/ND

Pope Francis is once again the subject of an AI-generated image. The religious leader has already gone viral with an image showing him wearing an inflatable jacket. A few months later, another photo circulated around the world showing the Pope appearing in front of a huge crowd in Lisbon, Portugal. But the image is also false – Photo: NewsSky/Disclosure/ND

Photos of brothers Princes William and Harry have been widely shared on social media. In one of them they are depicted hugging each other at the coronation of the king. The post, which has received more than 78,000 likes on Facebook, includes seven more photos. None of them are real. According to the News Sky website, the images were originally published on a blog where the author explained that the Midjourney image generator was used to “represent genuine reconciliation” between the British royal brothers – Photo: NewsSky/Disclosure/ND

A photo of Julian Assange – an Australian activist, programmer and journalist – in prison also went viral. He, the founder of WikiLeaks, appears ill and jailed in Belmarsh, but the image was taken with the help of Midjourney. The image was shared on Facebook and reposted 29 thousand times on X. – Photo: NewsSky/Divulgação/ND

Billionaire Elon Musk, owner of Space X and the social network X (formerly Twitter), was also attacked by AI. Musk has made no secret of his desire to create humanoid robots, but not “robot wives.” The fake image shows the billionaire kissing a replica of what could be his “robot wife.” The image was published on Facebook and X, but it is nothing more than an image created by artificial intelligence. Photo: NewsSky/Divulgação/ND.