Trump blames AI over bizarre White House video but people are quick to spot major 'lie'

President Trump has blamed artificial intelligence for a White House blunder.

Trump decided technology was to blame after a strange video went viral on social media. It appeared to show a black trash bag being thrown from a White House window.

Viewers began to speculate what may have been in the bag when the White House press office revealed on Monday 1 August that the video was real, and there was nothing bad happening in the video. The office said it was ‘a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the president was gone’, as per the statement.

However, Trump said otherwise.

When Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Trump about the video just one day later while the president was talking to reporters at the Oval Office, Trump admitted he had not seen it.

When Doocy showed him the clip on his phone, he went on to theorise that it was generated content.

Which was at odds with what his own press office said when they confirmed the clip was real.

“That’s probably A.I.-generated,” Trump said, and then went on to describe how heavy the White House windows are to open as evidence.

“My wife was complaining about it the other day,” He added. “She said, ‘I’d love to have a little fresh air come in,’ but you can’t -they’re bulletproof. Number one, they’re sealed. And number two, each window weighs about 600 pounds. You have to be pretty strong to open them up.”

Trump also said something odd about using AI as an escape method to get out of trouble.

“One of the problems we have with A.I., it’s both good and bad,” he said. “If something happens, really bad, just blame A.I. But also they create things. You know, it works both ways. If something happens, it’s really bad, maybe I’ll have to just blame A.I.”

“I see so many phony things,” he said. “I saw something, as I was growing up from the time I was a baby till now, I said, ‘Who did that?’ It was A.I. generated. So it’s a little bit scary to be honest with you.”

He also reiterated that ‘those windows are all very heavily sealed’.

People online have been left miffed over the response from Trump, with one person calling the facts about the sealed windows ‘bizarre’.

They wrote on X: “In a bizarre moment you realize the windows are 5" thick and don't open.”

Hany Farid, a professor at University of California, Berkeley and the chief science officer at deepfake detection firm GetReal, said there was no evidence that the video in question was AI-generated or manipulated.

As per CNN, he said: “We do not detect any digital watermarks that are sometimes inserted at the point of AI-generation. The shadows in the scene, including the shadow cast by the tossed bag, are all physically consistent.

“The motion of the waving flags have none of the tell-tale signs that you often see in AI-generated videos. The overall structure of the White House appears to be consistent, including the flying of the American and POW/MIA flag.”