{"id":56654,"date":"2026-07-14T19:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/theres-no-evidence-this-mitch-mcconnell-photo-is-ai-generated\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:49:29","slug":"theres-no-evidence-this-mitch-mcconnell-photo-is-ai-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/theres-no-evidence-this-mitch-mcconnell-photo-is-ai-generated\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no evidence this Mitch McConnell photo is AI-generated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photo shared by US Senator Mitch McConnell showing him alive and recovering after a fall has led to widespread speculation about its authenticity, with some claiming without evidence it is AI-generated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 84 year-old Republican recently revealed he had been hospitalised after suffering a fall and contracting mild pneumonia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It followed questions over his health after he hadn&#8217;t been seen in public for weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton explains how we can tell the photo is genuine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Sophie Bott. Filmed by Meiying Wu. Graphics by Sally Nicholls.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c9d2dx059n1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo shared by US Senator Mitch McConnell showing him alive and recovering after a fall has led to widespread speculation about its authenticity, with some claiming without evidence it is AI-generated. The 84 year-old Republican recently revealed he had been hospitalised after suffering a fall and contracting mild pneumonia. It followed questions over his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[13332,537,15976,15975,447],"class_list":["post-56654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-aigenerated","tag-evidence","tag-mcconnell","tag-mitch","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56656,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56654\/revisions\/56656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}