We will have heard everything about Kate Middleton.
Disappeared from the public sphere since last January following an abdominal operation, some conspiracy theorists have made numerous speculations.
Among the theses put forward, she would have undergone cosmetic surgery in secret, would be in the process of divorcing Prince William... a handful even going so far as to think she is dead while Buckingham tries to hide her body.
After the publication of the doctored photo at the beginning of March which set fire to the powder throughout the country and beyond, the Princess of Wales released a video, on Friday March 22, to calm things down and reveal the truth.
She herself announces that she has cancer and has started preventive chemotherapy.
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“Nothing real”
We thought the rumors would stop after this announcement.
But if the sequence reassured some, others saw it as further proof of conspiracy.
And to relaunch the media scandal called “Kategate”.
“This video of Kate Middleton is entirely created by an AI (
artificial intelligence, Editor's note
)”, we can read en masse on X, this Monday, March 25, three days after the announcement of her illness.
Internet users thus assure that Kensington is still hiding something from them and that this is a well-crafted deepfake.
“Is Kate Middleton really dead?”, people still wonder on social networks.
And one user added: “This Kate Middleton video is based on AI, but members of the public who are not familiar with the technology will be easily fooled.”
In question, he says, “the too blurry background which does not move, and the breeze of the wind which does not move any petal, leaf or blade of grass.
Nothing real.”
One user zooms in on the eyes, which are far too bright, another points out the stripes on her sweater, a striped sweater, which are strangely reflected on the bench where she is sitting.
Thus, as with the tricked photo, royal fans and even the simply curious dissected every second of the filmed sequence and another detail did not escape them: that of the alliance of George's mother, Charlotte and Louis, who would appear to disappear in the middle of the sequence.
Alliance which had already raised a number of questions about the first fake photo published on March 10.
And in fact, it is clear that the ring evaporates at 1 minute 19 of the video, as revealed by another sequence played in slow motion.
“The ring is not on Catherine’s finger,” notes a user.
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A fake Kate Middleton
As such, we then look at the appearance of Kate Middleton several days ago, in the streets of Windsor alongside her husband.
The image, taken by paparazzi, showing the smiling princess doing her shopping, is also called into question.
“The Crown of England, after circulating a false photo of Kate Middleton, is sinking even further into the irrational by parading a false Kate.
A video of William's wife has been circulating since yesterday but people used AI to "de-blur" Kate Middleton's face and it's just not her.
Finally and for more sensationalism, yet another user shares another video.
This time Meghan Markle's face is transposed onto that of Kate Middleton for an absolutely stunning result.
And he concludes, modestly, as if to finally convince the refractory: “Finally, everything is possible with AI”.