Day 1,722: brandish, retouch
In recent weeks pictures of Taylor Swift at an American-football game have been altered to suggest, falsely, that she was brandishing pro-Trump banners. Images fabricated by ai appeared to show the former president with black Americans, a group he is trying to court. Such falsehoods are clearly unacceptable. When is photo retouching valid—and when does it go too far?
Artwork of the day
Snowy landscape with a woman brandishing a broom and a man holding an umbrella
Utagawa KunisadaStyle:Ukiyo-eGenre:landscape
Word of the day
brandish: to wave something in the air in a threatening or excited way:
retouch: to make small changes to a picture, photograph, etc., especially in order to improve it:
Quote of the day
“I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince