Flurry of stars targeted by AI slop on Facebook over the holidays

In December 2025, Facebook posts surfaced claiming Melania Trump or other celebrities secretly funded a church’s construction and decorated it alone for Christmas.
The posts used fabricated images, and duplicates circulated with various celebrities swapped in, but no credible evidence exists that any named individual funded the church, suggesting AI generation.
Tech experts confirmed the images likely resulted from AI, with one engineer using his company’s AI detection tool flagging them as highly probable AI creations.
The articles shared unnatural phrasing, copy-pasted elements, and homoglyphs to evade detection as AI-generated, indicating the posts were likely “click farming” attempts.
The Facebook pages promoting these posts receive complaints about misleading and AI-generated content, though they continue to circulate fabricated stories.
The posts illustrate the prevalence of phony AI content on social media, designed to generate engagement and profit for those distributing it.

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