No, Pope Francis’ image in a puffer trench coat was created by AI. - iVerify Kenya

No, Pope Francis’ image in a puffer trench coat was created by AI.

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The image of Pope Francis in a puffer trench coat is created by an Artificial intelligence image-generators

An AI image generator brings ideas to life instantly, eliminating the need to design from scratch.

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Verified Mar, 27 2023

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Pope Francis wears a puffer trench coat.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered that the image of Pope Francis in a puffer trench coat, which appears realistic, was created by the latest version of the generative-AI art tool Midjourney. We asked the tool to generate an image of Francis wearing a puffer trench coat, and it produced a vivid image of the Pope walking down the street wearing the coat. Midjourney v5 is available as an alpha test for customers who subscribe to the Midjourney service via Discord.

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