An image appearing to show the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, and the CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, holding hands is not authentic and was created by artificial intelligence. The image seemingly shows Musk dressed in a black denim jacket and wearing a black tie holding hands with Barra who is wearing a black leather jacket. Lovett told Reuters that he created the image via the website Midjourney – an AI-image generator that creates images via text prompts. “In the case of the Elon Musk image with Mary Barra, it tends to give them similar facial structures and almost melds them together in a way that makes them appear as though they were siblings.”VERDICTMissing context. The image was created via the AI-generating website, Midjourney, the creator of the image told Reuters.

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