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AI-enhanced video from the White House Correspondents’ dinner spread confusion online

Poynter · Maria Briceño · last updated

Users trying to sharpen low-quality security footage instead introduced new inaccuracies and confusion

Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artificial intelligence to review the video caused more confusion, not less.

An unedited video from the dinner first appeared online in the hours after the shooting when President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social low-quality security footage of a person running through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton hotel as Secret Service agents rushed behind him with guns drawn.

 

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