Trump posts AI video of planned 47-story presidential library tower in Miami

Huge glass skyscraper envisioned for Trump presidential library in AI video

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The developers working on President Donald Trump's library sketched out a vision for a towering Miami building with room to display multiple planes, and replicas of prominent parts of the White House. The AI-generated video, which Trump posted on social media Monday night, displays a tower with a gold entryway and escalator, an illuminated American flag and the word "TRUMP" emblazoned near its top. Donations are being collected for the project, the White House said on Tuesday. "This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, and the greatest ⁠President our Nation has ever known," Trump's son Eric Trump said in an X post. It comes as the Republican president is also pursuing an array of plans that would change the appearance of Washington - including adding a $400 million ballroom to the White House, a 250-foot-tall (76-meter-tall) triumphal arch and rebuilding the Kennedy Center performing arts complex. Reuters confirmed that various shots of the video were generated by using Google's AI models. The video was analyzed with Google's SynthID, an AI detection tool, which concluded the footage was created using one of the tech company's generative AI models. The tool works by detecting a hidden watermark contained in AI-generated or AI-modified images created by Google models and it detected those watermarks in ⁠parts of the video. GROWING FORCE IN POLITICS AI-generated imagery is playing a growing role in U.S. politics, with candidates contesting the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress for the next two years increasingly releasing "deepfake" videos that present misleading images of their rivals. Republicans appear to be utilizing the technology more frequently than Democrats, following the lead of Trump's White House, which has released ⁠scores of AI-generated videos and gaming-inspired memes on social media that do everything from disparaging protesters to hyping up the Iran war. No details were available on any specific architectural plan for the library, but the video depicted some classic Trump decorative touches including a ⁠giant gold entrance, a multi-level lobby with what appears to be an Air Force One plane, a fighter jet and a helicopter and a larger-than-life golden statue of Trump holding up his fist in a glittering, defiant salute. Presidential ⁠libraries have been used to preserve documents, records and other historical materials of U.S. presidents after they leave office. They are part of a system administered by the National Archives and sometimes feature museum exhibitions related to the president. Reporting by Doina Chiacu, Trevor Hunnicutt and Pola Grzanka; Editing by Scott Malone and Andrea Ricci Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It's AI Slop

There is a parking lot in Miami currently slated to be turned into the Donald Trump Presidential Library, according to Politico. It's supposed to be 47 stories tall. An anonymous Politico source with insider knowledge of the project told the publication they were imagining a “traditional library space [on the] first couple of full floors. Then you go up to 10 floors: hotel. And then you’d have office space. And then you have, you know, probably a beautiful restaurant at the top.†If that's hard to envision, the president helpfully furnished a visual aid of sorts via Truth Social on Monday night. His son Eric also posted it on X, perhaps for extra visibility. To be clear, while AI was obviously used, it's not as if someone typed "Sizzle real of the Donald Trump Presidential Library in Miami please!" into the soon to be discontinued Sora. Someone obviously made renderings of this tower, credited to the architecture firm Bermello Ajamil. But those renderings have been turned into a promo video with one or another AI video generator (and the resulting clips were edited together, stirring music was added, etc.). And that's not really a gotcha. Trump likes AI just fine, and riles people up by posting little slop movies online sometimes. It is a little funny, though, that whatever video generator was used doesn't handle text very well, and it at one point rendered "Donald J. Trump Presidential Library" as, well, see for yourself: "More like Donald J. Trump Presidential Lierary" is a hack joke I would never make myself, but the President made it for me. Gizmodo reached out to Bermello Ajamil for comment. We will update if we hear back.