Technology & AI
Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake
Source: The Verge · Published
These edits of Jason Statham (left) and Jeff Bezos are a bit jarring, but that’s sort of the point. | Image: The Verge Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed in the las
These edits of Jason Statham (left) and Jeff Bezos are a bit jarring, but that’s sort of the point. | Image: The Verge Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed in the last few days. However, there are some images of the two men circulating around X , Threads , and Bluesky in which they both have substantially more hair than their usual shaved look, which in Bezos' case appears to be very freshly transplanted.
It's all just photo editing fakery, AI or otherwise. It's unclear how viral these posts are , but they're prevalent enough that a few members of the Verge team have encountered them in their social media feeds. Some people who shared them claimed … Read the full story at The Verge.
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