Fake AI Beatles News
A Facebook group, calling itself The Beatles, and you can see how many followers they have managed to attract.
Social media is running wild with fake stories about the Beatles or the surviving members, often supported by AI-created “photos”. The stories’ texts are very likely AI created. These stories are created to gain clicks, but also so that imposters posing as Paul McCartney can try to lure money out of gullible fans through direct messaging.
To alert you, we are posting some of these items here, but we have placed a large FAKE text over the images, in order to prevent them from being misused.
A fake tour poster, announcing a joint Paul and Ringo tour of the USA.
An AI created “photo”, but the likeness isn’t very good.
The haircut Ringo had for decades is often used for the fake AI-created “photos”. For the past few years, Ringo has had a rather full head of longer hair, not this ultra short cut.
Paul, seemingly at his father’s grave. Not so.
Ringo’s daughter Lee had a brain tumor around the time of George’s death, but it was removed and she is healthy.
As there aren’t so many new photos of Lee, the women in these stories are completely AI created from scratch.
A very fake looking AI-created Paul with a similarly fake audience, still people commented to ask where in Liverpool this statue was and wrote that they had planned to book trips to Liverpool to see it for themselves.
No, Paul is not undertaking a prison tour to celebrate his 83d (which is tomorrow, June 18, by the way).
“No, they’re not”, said little Nicola.
True story: We remember him saving a baby carriage in the eighties, though. But the story in this photo is not true.
A not very good likeness is playing a right handed guitar.
Julian Lennon gets his own fake stories, too.
AI is only getting better and better each week, so the images and stories they are creating are only going to be harder to identify as fakery. Always try to find more sources if you are in doubt of a Beatles news item, and stick to official and trusted web sites.
I was sure this was fake yesterday, until I saw it on multiple trusted sites – Three Beatles’ Sons Come Together On New Mantra Of The Cosmos Song “Rip Off”
Yes, the original source for that story was an interview Zak gave to the British newspaper The Telegraph, and he also teased a preview on his Instagram account in the aftermath.