The president says the execution of the Fort Hood terrorist attacker will not be public after all.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth had recommended the public execution by military firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the admitted terrorist killer of 13 people plus an unborn baby in the Nov. 2009 shooting near Killeen, Texas. The execution is scheduled for December 3.

'He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed.'

The decision to livestream the event was praised by many, but some took exception, including Catholic leaders and critics of capital punishment.

On Thursday President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the execution will not be public.

"I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan," wrote the president, "but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device. He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed."

He added that the execution can be viewed by the families of the victims if they choose to do so.

"They deserve to witness JUSTICE!" he concluded.

Among those critical of livestreaming the execution was Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who said the livestreaming video would become a recruiting tool for other terrorists. Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch the livestreamed execution.

"We live in a society that already diminishes death so much. I don’t want it on TikTok," said Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, who went on to say livestreaming the execution would "rot our souls."

Many expressed gratitude that the president was willing to listen to others' voices and change his mind.

"Thanks to @POTUS for the right decision not to livestream the execution of the terrorist, Nidal M. Hasan, who unjustly murdered 14 people at Fort Hood. This decision at least stops us from taking a step deeper into the violent culture of death by exploiting Hasan and his victims’ survivors," responded Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas.

"This is clearly the right choice and President Trump should be commended for making it," replied theologian and academic Matthew Lee Anderson of Baylor University, an evangelical Protestant Christian.

"A great step in the right direction," responded Father Matthew P. Schneider, a Catholic priest and moral theologian.

"Thank you, Mr. President," wrote Father Aquinas Guilbeau, moral theologian and Dominican priest.

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"Trump overrides Hegseth to cancel live-stream of public firing squad execution. Sanity prevails momentarily," said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).

Father Joshua J. Whitfield, a prominent Catholic priest and columnist who had said a public execution would have been "perverse," appeared to approve of the change as well.

An ABC News poll found that 53% of respondents approved of the execution of Nidal Hasan, but only 18% supported livestreaming the execution and 80% were opposed to it.

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President Trump says Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad as scheduled on Dec. 3, but the execution will not be streamed. Families of the victims may witness it in person.

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AI slop is everywhere. It is strewn across the internet, stuffed into social feeds, and even popping up in real-world printed materials. If you have a good eye or you’re simply wise to bad imagery, you may be able to spot these on your own. If not, Google has an AI slop detector designed to make it easier to tell fake images from real ones.

The tool is called SynthID Detector. Why SynthID, you ask? The moniker is borrowed from the namesake of Google’s invisible digital watermark embedded into every image created with Nano Banana, the image generation tool found in Google Gemini. Every time you make an image with Gemini, it contains invisible digital noise that tells other apps and services that the image was made with AI and that it came directly from Google’s platform.

Google’s AI image slop scanner could be helpful when you encounter AI-generated photos online, but it is not foolproof.

Since you can’t see SynthID details in an image with the naked eye, these photos can proliferate online spaces without anyone knowing they’re not real. Google hopes to fix that, though, with SynthID Detector, which can decipher the origin of some AI images — emphasis on some.

To use SynthID Detector, go to the webpage and sign in with your Google account. Then find an image that you suspect to be AI, and drag and drop it into the search box. If successful, the page will instantly display the AI origin of the image, and it can even tell you if the photo has been edited further from its original version.

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You can scan images, videos, and audio files across a broad range of formats that you would typically encounter on the web so that all your bases are covered. Unfortunately, there are some other limitations to keep in mind before you rely on SynthID Detector too much.

As a Google-made service, SynthID Detector is designed first and foremost to detect images with Google’s proprietary SynthID watermark embedded inside. Right now, that includes images generated with Gemini, along with a couple of other partners, such as Nvidia, OpenAI, and Kakao, an AI company from South Korea that you have never heard about.

That’s it.

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Google is working to expand SynthID support into other AI image generation companies, apps, and services. For instance, Apple Playground, the image generation app that comes with newer iPhones, will soon be compatible. However, the vast majority of image creation tools will slide under SynthID Detector … well … undetected. And there are a lot of them: Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and the open-source versions of Stable Diffusion, Flux, and DALL-E 3, just to name a few.

So in other words, Google’s AI image slop scanner could be helpful when you encounter AI-generated photos online, but it is not foolproof. If the image comes from a non-SynthID-partner, any queries will show up empty.

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Another area where SynthID falls short is in detecting real images. Because the system is designed to search only for SynthID watermarks, it can’t decipher when no watermarks are present at all. Therefore, real images are treated just like AI-generated images from non-SynthID-partners. It would be nice if SynthID Detector could at least tell when a real photo is real, but in this aspect, it is virtually useless.

As AI becomes more prevalent, society will likely need more tools like SynthID to help us discern factual content from fiction. Unfortunately, while SynthID Detector is a good first start, it shows just how severely lacking AI detection is when working with non-centralized standards for AI creation, labeling, and distribution. To truly be beneficial to mankind, detection tools need to either adopt robust scanning features or AI needs standardized policies, neither of which are likely to happen soon.

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