The doctored image of Australia’s Victorian Upper House MP Georgie Purcell appeared on a Nine News bulletin in Melbourne for using an image edited to make her breasts look bigger and expose her midriff.
The news network blamed automation by Photoshop following criticism of the government’s conclusion to deny a ban on duck hunting. Yet, Adobe has seemingly cast suspicion on Nine News’s claim about its software.
Meanwhile, the programme’s news director, Hugh Nailon, apologised to the upper house Animal Justice Party MP for the graphic error and condemned automation by Photoshop.
“Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting. As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs,” he said.
Additionally, apologising to Ms Purcell unreservedly, he maintained that the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not compatible with the original. This did not satisfy the high editorial standards we usually maintain.
Fairly a tad bit more concerned about the grave situation, Victorian premier Jacinta Allan said unfortunately, the disparity for women is that they also have to confront persistently with sexualisation and enough objectification. That stirs towards circulated images that take place distorted and AI-generated.
She made it positively explicit by saying that the recent news impacts young women and girls across Victoria in Australia. It stays at even the top of a woman’s job, her purely naturally biological body is invariably up for grabs. That’s why they are pained greatly by the misrepresentation.