(CBS News) — Former President Donald Trump on Sunday falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign lied about a crowd attending her Aug. 7 rally in Detroit, Michigan. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said a photo of the crowd was created using artificial intelligence and that the crowd in fact “didn’t exist.”

However, numerous videos from the event at Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport show a large crowd attended, and the videos show a crowd similar to the one seen in the photo. Local reporters for the news site MLive estimated 15,000 people were present as Air Force Two arrived. Similar photos were also taken by news agencies covering the event, including Reuters and Getty Images.

The photo Trump questioned was posted to X by a Michigan campaign staffer for Harris, who said he received it from a colleague. CBS News has reached out to the Harris campaign to ask whether someone on the campaign took the photograph and to request an original copy of the photograph for analysis.

Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in deepfake detection, said in a post on LinkedIn that he received multiple requests to analyze the image after it went viral online.

Farid said he found no evidence that the image was AI-generated or digitally altered. Farid said the text on the signs and plane show none of the usual signs of generative AI.

The Harris campaign responded to Trump’s accusations on Truth Social, replying to one of his posts...

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