Trump says video showing items thrown from White House is AI after his team indicates it’s real

By MICHELLE L PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON AP President Donald Trump commented Tuesday that a video circulating online that revealed items being tossed out of an upstairs window of the White House was created with artificial intelligence despite his press squad seeming to confirm the veracity of it hours earlier Trump who has boasted of being an expert in building design as he takes on remodeling projects at the White House and beyond explained reporters that the video has got to be fake because the windows he mentioned are heavy and sealed shut The video which circulated Monday appears to show a small black bag and a long white item being tossed out of a window on the building s east side Trump blamed the video on AI saying the creation of fake videos was one of the downsides of the mechanism but then mentioned If something happens that s really bad maybe I ll have to just blame AI Related Articles House Oversight Committee releases selected Justice Department files in Epstein and Maxwell cases Trump addresses robustness rumors after days without inhabitants events Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition Trump says US strike on vessel in Caribbean targeted Venezuela s Tren de Aragua gang killed The -year-old law that governs military s role in local law enforcement Hours earlier the White House seemed to verify that the video was real when it recounted several news outlets that inquired about the video that it was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone The White House did not respond to a message later Tuesday about the discrepancy Trump denied that the windows can be opened and stated I know every window up there He went on to tell a story in which he explained first lady Melania Trump of late complained that she requested fresh air from an open window in the White House But you can t They re bulletproof And number one they re sealed and number two each window weighs about pounds You have to be pretty strong to open them up After Trump viewed the video on the phone of Fox News Channel reporter Peter Doocy the president again declared the windows are sealed and again blamed AI It s the kind of thing they do he mentioned 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 Hany Farid a digital forensics and misinformation expert at the University of California Berkeley who reviewed the video announced he does not detect any digital watermarks that are sometimes inserted into images at the point of AI-generation The shadows in the scene including the shadow cast by the tossed bag are all physically consistent The motion of the waving flags have none of the tell-tale signs that you often see in AI-generated videos The overall structure of the White House appears to be consistent including the flying of the American and POW MIA flag Farid mentioned in a announcement Former first lady Michelle Obama in a appearance on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show seemed to complain about not being able to open windows in the White House telling the host that she was looking forward to life after the White House saying she required to take car rides with open windows and announced The windows in our house don t open Associated Press writer Melissa Goldin in New York contributed to this record