2023-06-14 13:09:59
Social media users circulated an image whose publishers said it showed Pope Francis holding the rainbow flag, which symbolizes homosexuality.
It is true that the Pope has previously sparked controversy with his relatively liberal positions on sexual orientation and gender identity, but the image is not real, but rather generated by programs that rely on artificial intelligence.
The picture shows Pope Francis with a rainbow flag on his shoulders.
The image was widely circulated on Twitter and shared by some pages on Facebook, coinciding with the beginning of June, which annually witnesses “pride” marches held by the “Meme Ain + community” and various activities in support of their rights.
Pope Francis has previously sparked controversy with his relatively liberal stances on sexual orientation and gender identity, contrary to the beliefs of many conservative Catholics, but the pope has also frustrated modernizers by sticking firmly to the Catholic teaching that marriage is the union between a man and a woman exclusively.
In a documentary released by Disney Plus at the beginning of April, the 86-year-old pope said that “every person is a child of God.”
He also confirmed in the documentary, which was filmed during a meeting between the Pope and ten Spanish-speaking people from around the world last year, “I have no right to expel anyone from the Church.”
In January, Pope Francis said that people who criminalize homosexuality are “wrong”, saying that homosexuality is “not a crime”.
However, the circulated image, despite all this, is not real.
A search of it revealed that it was posted to a GayForest Twitter account, along with similar photos of the Pope with a rainbow flag on his shoulders.
The caption accompanying the photos, published on April 3, stated that they were generated using the Medgorny artificial intelligence program.
This type of software allows creating images in minutes using descriptive words.
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