Senator Dick Durbin presented a fabricated AI-generated image during a Senate speech, falsely depicting a fatal shooting and misidentifying the involved federal agency and the victim's name. The image contained a clear visual error, with an agent missing a head. The Senator's post was heavily criticized on social media.
Sen. Dick Durbin displayed a poster of an AI-generated image falsely depicting the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti — in which one AI-created federal agent is clearly missing a head — while delivering remarks on the Senate floor.
“I am on the Senate floor to condemn the killing of U.S. citizens at the hands of federal immigration officers and to demand the Trump Administration take accountability for its actions,” Durbin proclaimed in a Wednesday X post, sharing video footage if him speaking on Capitol Hill.“This weekend, federal agents gunned down yet another American in Minneapolis,” the senator said. “Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse.” “I’m going to show a photo of that scene, which is graphic, but I’m afraid it’s necessary to appreciate the horror of the moment,” Durbin continued, before displaying an AI-generated image falsely depicting last weekend’s fatal shooting on the Senate floor. “This photo shows the last second, before the ICE agent killed Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis,” the Democrat lawmaker added, getting yet another piece of information wrong, as the 37-year-old was shot by a border patrol agent — not ICE. The senator’s X post sharing the video of his remarks was quickly ratioed. For context, “ratioed” is a social media term — primarily used on X — referring to when a post has far more replies than likes or reposts, indicating it is widely disliked or considered wrong by other users, who then flood the comment section to share their criticism. “You just used an AI image on the floor of the U.S. Senate as evidence, Dick,” Townhall columnist Dustin Grage“Did no one notice the alleged ICE officer is missing a head?!” Teetsel asked, sharing a still shot of the image from Durbin’s video, which shows that one of the AI-generated agents obviously does not have a head. “‘The photo tells the story.’ Yeah. This story is about a drooling old Boomer in a silk suit who falls for AI slop like that kneeling ICE agent who has no head,” another. “Falling for an AI photo and using in a floor speech is WILDLY embarrassing and can’t be helpful to your cause.” “Whether you knew it or not, you presented an AI-generated false image as fact on the Senate floor. You should be censured, if not removed from office,” another“One of the agents doesn’t even have head ffs,” the X user added. “This needs to be stricken from the record.”Giancarlo Esposito Willing to See 50 Million People Die for His RevolutionReports: U.S. Tells Allies to Prepare for ‘Virtually Certain’ Iran StrikeCNN's Miracle: People in L.A. Overtook ICE Property, 'Cornered' OfficersReports: U.S. Tells Middle East Allies to Prepare for ‘Virtually Certain’ Iran Strike – ‘Only Question Is When’ Democrat Sherrod Brown: Extending Protections for Haitian Migrants Is ‘Putting Ohio Communities First’Gallego: ICE Is ‘Going to Go After All the Brown People’Nolte: Fake Media Refused Entry to ‘Melania’ Doc at Trump Kennedy Center
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