Photos Show Elderly Married Couple Celebrating 76 Years Together?
These fake pictures showed signs someone created them using an artificial-intelligence (AI) tool. For example, in the left-hand picture, the woman’s right hand only had four fingers. Further, reverse-image searches for more information only found users reposting the fake pictures. Separately, in our research, we also noted a story of a real couple matching the same ages and number of years married. However, they did not look like the people in the AI-generated pictures.
A set of pictures circulating online purported to show photos of a young man and woman at their wedding and then the same couple in old age 76 years later.
For example, on Sept. 5, 2024, X user @lippyent shared (archived) the photo with the caption, “76 years together. She is 94 and he is 97. When something is real, it’s forever.” That post received nearly 2 million views.
Newsmax TV host Greta Van Susteren reposted (archived) @lippyent’s post, adding the caption, “And still beautiful ….love this post.”
Meanwhile, other Facebook users also posted either the same story or a slightly altered caption reading, “76 years of marriage. She’s 94 years old, he’s 97. When something is real, it lasts forever.” Some of those posts received many thousands of likes and shares.
However, neither picture was real. First, reverse-image searches for both pictures only found reposts of the same story with no originating news article or other legitimizing data. Further, both images displayed signs one or more people created them with at least one artificial-intelligence (AI) tool. We will update this story if we uncover any details about the person or people who created the pictures.
