Sounds a bit of like some beep-boop BS.
President Donald Trump is blaming robots, or extra particularly synthetic intelligence, for a really bizarre White Home video extensively shared on social media Monday — however there’s one massive flaw in his declare.
An Instagram account referred to as “Washingtonianprobs” posted a weird clip of somebody throwing mysterious objects out of an open window in a residential a part of the White Home over the weekend.
“One of our community members noticed some things being thrown out of one of The White House’s windows today,” the submit learn. “Doing some deep Sunday cleaning? 👀”
As a result of really bonkers nature of the video, it shortly unfold to different platforms and have become viral sufficient that the White Home felt compelled to reply.
“It was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone,” a White Home official mentioned in a press release to Time journal on Tuesday, which means the content material within the video was actual.
But, when Trump was requested concerning the video throughout a press convention on Tuesday, he indicated that it was the primary time he had ever heard about it — and instantly waved it off as faux.
“No, that’s probably AI-generated,” Trump mentioned, noting that one can’t open the home windows within the White Home as a result of “they’re all heavily armored.”
“In fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day. She said, ‘I’d love to have a little fresh air come in.’ But you can’t, they’re bulletproof,” Trump mentioned, earlier than persevering with to ramble concerning the home windows.
“And uh, No. 1, they’re sealed, and No. 2, each window weighs about 600 lbs. So, you have to be pretty strong to open them up,” Trump mentioned earlier than pausing and asking the reporter who was questioning him to indicate him the video.
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After the reporter confirmed Trump the video and advised him that the video gave the impression to be shot from the “15th side,” Trump went on to say that it was unattainable as a result of “those windows are sealed.”
“It’s the kind of thing they do,” Trump mentioned, earlier than making a telling assertion.
“And one of the problems we have with AI, it’s both good and bad. If something happens really bad just blame AI. But also they create things, you know, it works both ways. If something happens, it’s really bad, maybe I’ll just have to blame AI.”
He then went on to explain watching an AI slop video of him “growing up from the time I was a baby until now” and located it “a little bit scary.”
“But those windows are very heavily sealed,” Trump concluded.
Regardless of Trump and his White Home workers crossing wires on their official story for the odd video, when the clip first made its means onto X Monday, loads of customers had some very humorous theories as to why gadgets had been being hurled out of a White Home window — particularly since rumors swirled over the weekend that Trump’s well being had declined.
