President Donald Trump dismissed a viral video posted over the weekend, claiming it’s likely AI-generated. The clip seems to show a black bag being dropped from a second-story window at the White House.
“That’s probably AI-generated. So, actually, you can’t open the windows. You know why? They’re all heavily armored and bulletproof,” Trump said. “It’s got to be because I know every window up there … Number one, they’re sealed, and number two, each window weighs about 600 pounds.”
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When a reporter showed him the video directly, the president pushed back again, saying it wouldn’t be possible.
“Yeah, those windows are sealed. Those windows are all — they’re all sealed. You can’t open them,” Trump said.
Trump joked that if something bad ever happens to “just blame AI.”
Other sources contradict Trump
While Trump claims the video is likely AI-generated, other sources have told CNN that the video is real. The sources claim the scene was related to construction and renovations going on in that area of the White House.
A UC Berkeley expert who reviewed the footage said he didn’t see signs it was AI-generated.
“We do not detect any digital watermarks that are sometimes inserted at the point of AI-generation. The shadows in the scene, including the shadow cast by the tossed bag, are all physically consistent,” he said.
