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Stuart Kirk
With a few prompts, artificial intelligence (AI) might have produced an even better photo. Make Donald Trump’s head bigger and move it to centre frame. No pole skewering the Secret Service agent on the left and distracting from the former president’s raised arm.
The other extraordinary image from the shooting that day could have been improved by making the grey line captured by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Doug Mills more bullet-like.
