No offense to Gil AvérousFrench Minister of Sports, for whom “sports fields should not become political forums”the saga of tifos with political messages in French stadiums does not seem ready to end.
In response to the banner “Free Palestine” held at the Parc des Princes on November 6, 2024, during the meeting between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Atlético de Madrid, a tifo “Free the hostages”, on which we can see the flag of Israel and a city engulfed in flames, would also have been unfurled in the Parisian stadium, according to reports Internet users.
Many Internet users are calling for “flood the networks” by sharing this tifo. It can be found on Xon Facebookon Instagram and also on Threads.
The only downside is that the photo used is a false image created from scratch by artificial intelligence.
Signs specific to artificial intelligence
There is reason to doubt given the many “trademarks” of artificial intelligence in the photo. First clue : inconsistencies in the writing. For example, the blurry letters above the tifo or the completely illegible letters from the sponsors. Aside from the letters, many areas in the image also show distortions, the hallmark of an AI-generated image.
However, one element is particularly striking: for a supposed match of the French team at the Parc des Princes, the only blue-white-red flag visible in the stands is not the French flag but seems to be that (incomplete) of the Thailand.
Thanks to the Google Lens image search engine, a simple click is enough to find the source of our image. The Highlighters noticed that it had been published for the first time on X on November 6, 2024 at 10:29 p.m., sharp before the minutes of added time signaling the end of the PSG – Atlético Madrid match. In the original post, its creator mentioned the Paris Saint-Germain club while ironically congratulating them “this tifo is very good”.
However, not all Internet users are fooled. Many of them warn about the misleading nature of this image, and those who share the image use the conditional to emphasize their wish to see this tifo in the stadiums: “this is what we should see in our stadiums”or even “this banner at the Parc des Princes would have been more appropriate, but it’s AI”.
Created from scratch, these images generated by artificial intelligence are increasingly being shared on social networks. Some accounts even specialize in creating these, as we have pointed out at numerous occasions.
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