Combining separate promotional photos to create cast posters for movies and television shows.

In the entertainment industry, fake photos can serve various purposes. Sometimes, they are used as publicity stunts to generate buzz around a new movie, album, or celebrity event. For instance, fabricated images of celebrities in compromising situations or wearing outfits that are out of character can spread like wildfire on social media, creating scandals that may or may not be based on reality. These can drive engagement, increase visibility, and sometimes even affect the stock prices of companies involved with the celebrities.

Long before AI, magazines airbrushed waistlines and smoothed skin. But today, we’ve moved from retouching imperfections to generating entire realities . A celebrity isn't just edited; they are digitally placed in a location they never visited, wearing a prototype outfit that doesn't exist, next to another celebrity who was actually in a different country on that day. We consume these images knowing they are fake, yet we use them as benchmarks for beauty, success, and desirability. We are willingly gaslighting ourselves.