Fake AI-generated images of the pope wearing a white puffy jacket have gone viral online. They’re definitely created by computers but also are the first signs of a coming clash between real images and AI fakes.

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The Verge AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so far and wide as a picture of the pope wearing what can only be described as a swagged-out puffy jacket. The picture seems to have been first posted online on Friday, submitted to a subreddit for the AI image generator Midjourney.

The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality