Internet users took the picture to be true as the word of God itself — and lauded the Pope for his fashionable choice.
“The boys in Brooklyn could only hope for this level of drip,” the supreme pontiff’s puffy coat was captionedPortraits to follow captured Francis in sleek white gloves and pristine white sneakers — perhaps not a far cry from the Pope’s typically elevated uniform, but totally fake nonetheless.
The alleged AI artist has been identified as Pablo Xavier, a 31-year-old construction worker from the Chicago area,reported on Monday. Pablo Xavier, who declined to share his surname, told the outlet that he was “tripping on shrooms” when he began toying with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool that can generate realistic fake images.
The creator of this papal deepfake was “tripping on shrooms” when he devised this portrait of the Pope in a black leather jacket, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a thick gold crucifix chain.
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