After the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul there was a photo that started circulating on social media. In the image you can see Mike Tyson posing in front of the ring with the Palestinian flag: the photomontage seems almost credible but all you need is software to understand what it is.
The photo works. The pose of Mike Tyson it is simple but powerful, immobile in front of the lens. The gray goatee, the background and the colors of the shorts give away the context. The photo appears to have been taken at AT&T Stadium in ArlingtonTexas. It is here that on November 15th Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fought one of the most anticipated and at the same time strangest matches in the recent history of boxing. A former YouTuber against a former championa boy from 27 years old against a veteran of 58 years old.
The match was won by Jake Paul. Even if viewers were left with some suspicions about the agreements made between the two. In the hours after the match, X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit began to circulate a photograph which depicted Tyson wearing the Palestinian flag. The photomontage is done quite wellat least at first glance. In addition to the reflections of the flag, you can also see the folds that run through it.
How the photo of Tyson with the Palestine flag was created
A position? No. The original image was simply altered with good artificial intelligence which allowed us to build a fairly realistic effect. The checks come from multiple sources. The X account @dintentdata analyzed the image with the platform Trusted AI Generated Image Detector. The answer is clear. Mike Tyson did not wear on stage at the event no flag of Palestine and the photo was edited with artificial intelligence.
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The same result came from the analyzes of the journalists of NewsCheckera platform specialized in fact-checking. They also passed the image through the filters of a platform. In this case the software is called TrueMedia. The result is the same as the image is modified. NewsChecker editors write:
“The flag appears to have been digitally altered or added to the image. Mike Tyson is not usually associated with this flag. The lighting, borders and draping of the flag suggest it may be an edit.”
