The person who used Midjourney to create the fakes of Pope Francis in a puffy coat did not intend malice, though the images are now reportedly being co-opted by Church critics.
on Tuesday, March 28, the images were set up by Pablo Xavier, a 31-year-old US construction worker who did not divulge his last name as he was worried about being attacked for creating the images.According to Pablo Xavier, all he wanted to do was create funny art.
“I try to do funny stuff or trippy art – psychedelic stuff. It just dawned on me: I should do the Pope. Then it was just coming like water: ‘The Pope in Balenciaga puffy coat, Moncler, walking the streets of Rome, Paris,’ stuff like that,” he added. Namely, his images were being co-opted by critics of the Catholic Church, who wanted to slam the Church’s lavish spending. He said that “people are running with it and thought it was real without questioning it.”
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