US senator Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about the Kentucky Republican’s condition after weeks of mounting speculation about his health.
The statement included a smiling picture of McConnell with his wife, Elaine Chao, a tacit response to speculation online that he had died or was incapacitated. McConnell held a copy of Sunday’s Washington Post sports section in his hand.
Strange place for her hand.
oh, she had a drink in that hand.
Is this photo real? What’s the source?
I have no idea if the second pic is real, but the “hospital” pic is slop -you can see the fake text on the newspaper.
The pic was from X, but 99% of X is fake.
https://x.com/liam323/status/2076486811954864413
My guess is both pics are faked.
No it’s not. The paper is the WaPo sports section from a day or two ago and the lettering matches well with that and the crunchy pixels. The newspaper might be photoshopped into an old pic or there’s some other fuckery but the text on the paper matches. (Also that kind of check pattern on Mitch’s shirt is hard for current commercially available LLMs but wouldn’t put it past them to have access to something fancy.)
Jeans in a hospital bed. No buttons on her shirt (except the collar). Weird wall perspective between them. Not a single IV pole or monitor in sight. The newspaper text is garbled. And what kind of hospital bed has wooden armrests and no handles or adjustment buttons? This is some phony shit.
It’s not a bed it’s a coffin
Lol I love having fun with theories as much as the next guy but it’s very clearly just poor quality. The original newspaper I’ve just seen says “ Noskova Claims title in all-Czech showdown “ which I can even pretty clearly see it does say “ all Czech shutdown ” at the bottom. I would love for someone to prove me wrong and show me an AI that’s even capable of replicating something that convincing, it can’t put a real newspaper in there with accuracy like that no way. The room does kinda look like the backrooms but I’ve seen lots of clinics like this,i t is the USA after all.
What I do think is fake is how cognizant his statements are. No way he’s this sharp anymore and just like Biden they are playing up how not-braindead he is behind closed doors.
This is what I’ve seen floating around
Could just be post-processing I guess.
Lol the bottom one is clearly the original ran thru an AI filter and interpreted by it wrong. The original one is a real WaPo sports section I don’t believe AI could replicate a blurry one so well. If the original was completely AI generated it would look like this.
What does the actual paper say for that headline? That’s the whole point of holding that day’s paper, so others can compare to see if it’s the same paper, not just some paper with that day’s date on it.
How would you hold a ventriloquist dummy?
I think this is an AI joke lol
No Mitch officially put this photo out