Zendaya admits even friends were fooled by AI wedding

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The actress Zendaya told Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night that many people, including those in her personal life, had been “fooled” by AI pictures appearing to show her wedding to fellow actor Tom Holland. Fake images were first posted on X by a user called AK who depicted an array of celebrities at the ceremony. Another person on Instagram received more than ten million likes from an image that showed Holland holding a Spider-Man mask in the aisle. Although the caption admitted that the picture had used AI as an “artistic recreation”, many people were fooled. It’s a demonstration, above all, of the way that artificial intelligence can function as a kind of wish fulfilment. If it depicts something we want to be true, we may well believe it to be so.