The construction plans could take years (Picture: The Board of Peace)
Donald Trump’s glittering plan for Gaza,filled with futuristic coastline skyscrapers,was likely AI-generated,experts told Metro.
The US president’s son-in-law,Jared Kushner,gave a presentation last week to world leaders in Davos,Switzerland,about the war-ravaged strip.
It featured a slideshow that depicted dozens of gleaming skyscrapers rising on the enclave’s coast and the construction of new cities.
Metro asked tech experts to run the slides through AI detection tools,which use sophisticated algorithms to pick up on subtle signs that distinguish images made with computers from those created by humans.
They told Metro that it’s ‘likely’ the Trump administration’s images of the $25billion plans were coughed up by AI.
Dr Marco Ramilli,a cybersecurity specialist and the CEO of identifAI,a deepfake tracker,told Metro: ‘The mock-ups of the Gaza cityscapes appear to be AI-generated.
The plans for ‘New Gaza’ show transportation hubs and huge coastal towers (Picture: Board of Peace)
‘Although absolute certainty cannot be guaranteed,the adversarial AI models used by identifAI have indicated,with a very high degree of probability,the presence of AI-generated content.’
Adversarial AI is an artificial model dedicated to catching deepfakes,digital puppets designed to look ultra-realistic.
Despite the images used in the slideshow being low-resolution,Dr Ramilli said the platform’s confidence level is ‘very high’.
Nathan Marlor,head of data and AI at Version 1,believes the ‘Coastal Tourism’ image might be phoney for a few reasons.
‘Flowing,organic tower shapes with greenery draped over them are very characteristic of current AI image generators,’ Marlor explained.
‘They look impressive at a glance but there’s no actual architectural substance; real buildings have floors,structural logic and distinct materials.’
These include hospitals,with the UN warning last year that Israeli forces damaged 125 medical facilities and 34 hospitals.
After two years of violence,97% of education facilities in Gaza were flattened,leaving 658,000 children without a school to go to.
These piles of mangled metal and concrete have also blown hazardous materials into the air,a health risk for the 2.1million Gazans in the region.
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