Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated
Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated
Multiple photo agencies are sounding the alarm that Kate Middleton's latest portrait with her children could have been digitally altered.
The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse all released kill notifications to media outlets over the photo — released by Kensington Palace on Sunday — announcing that they would no longer be distributing the image.
The AP wrote, "it appears that the source has manipulated the image." AFP cited an "editorial issue," while Reuters said the photo was withdrawn after a "post-publication review."
Following its release, social media was abuzz with sleuths questioning whether the photo was photoshopped or AI-generated. Many were focused on the cuff of Princess Charlotte's pink cardigan, which appears to disappear in the photo.
Other users pointed out that Middleton was not wearing her wedding ring.
"no rings, kids all have their fingers crossed, weird blurring on charlotte's cuffs, leaves on the trees despite it being early mach - i'm sorry but they're just asking for us to go full katespiracy at this point," one user on X wrote.
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This is Business Insider's front page right now including this story on the right (which it is also complaining about on the left). It's really weird. Who exactly are they trying to appeal to, bankers who read the National Inquirer?
What a fucking tabloid mess.
But a really weird one, right?
Like you wouldn't expect a tabloid to have a bunch of financial news and you wouldn't expect a financial news source to have a bunch of tabloid stuff.
They're a big company. They must have market research people. So what is the demographic they've found that makes this make sense?
BI has been doing tabloid-level journalism for a long time now, this doesn't seem out of character for them at all. I'm sure their market research is entirely focused on maximizing engagement workout any concern about their reputation.
SO weird. You make a very good point… is there some tabloid reader/business person overlap somewhere? Like, a huge one that’s invisible to normal people?
My guess would be to launder otherwise unpalatable, right wing, conspiracy bullshit. Pretty clever. Financial news is usually pretty straightforward and somewhat predictable. If it's on here, then maybe it's not so outrageous, right?
Perhaps the customers are CEOs of AI companies who might want to sell the royals better deepfake technology?