MP Georgie Purcell responds to Channel Nine's bizarre excuse that Al is responsible for making her breasts look bigger in a promo for their news bulletin: 'I have doubts'

Australia's youngest MP, Georgie Purcell, has responded in a news bulletin to Channel Nine's apology that an artificial intelligence image generator enlarged her breasts.

The 31-year-old Animal Justice Party MP condemned Nine on Tuesday for broadcasting a doctored photo of her during the Melbourne news bulletin on Monday night.

The photo expanded her breasts and turned her white dress into a crop top, revealing a toned midriff.

9News Melbourne director Hugh Nailon issued a groveling apology to Ms Purcell on Tuesday, saying “Photoshop's automation created an image that was not consistent with the original.”

On Wednesday, Ms Purcell told Nova 100's Ben, Liam & Belle that she has accepted the network's apology for the blunder, but has doubts about their explanation.

“Nine have claimed it was an accident, but whether it was intentional or not, I think it just raises a bigger issue about the impact it could have on negative body image, especially for young women,” she said .

“I have accepted Nine's apology, but I have doubts about the reasoning… I hope we can learn lessons from it.”

Shortly after Nine apologized, a spokesperson for Photoshop manufacturer Adobe embarrassed the network by saying that using the AI ​​features would have required a human to make the adjustments.

“Any changes to this image would require human intervention and approval,” the spokesperson said.

The 31-year-old Animal Justice Party MP condemned Nine on Tuesday for broadcasting a doctored photo of her during the Melbourne news bulletin on Monday night. Ms Purcell is pictured next to Jacinta Allan in the image, in a bulletin presented by Nine newsreader Alicia Loxley

Ms Purcell was featured in the Nine News bulletin after criticizing Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan's decision not to ban duck shooting in the state.

In a message at X (formerly Tweet)the heavily tattooed politician shared the image from the segment alongside the original photo, which was taken last year.

'I had to go through a lot yesterday. But having my body and outfit photoshopped by a media outlet was not on my bingo card,” she wrote.

'Note the enlarged breasts and the outfit made more revealing. I can't imagine this happening to a male MP. What gives?'

Ms. Purcell noted that the photo couldn't show her real midriff for one obvious reason: her stomach was tattooed in 2020.

On Wednesday, Ms Purcell told Nova 100's Ben, Liam & Belle that she has accepted the network's apology for the blunder but has doubts about their explanation

“Hot tip 9 I got my whole stomach tattooed,” she added.

Mr Nailon apologized to Ms Purcell after Daily Mail Australia approached the network for comment.

“I would like to sincerely apologize to Georgie Purcell for a graphic error in last night's bulletin,” he said.

“Our graphics department found an online image of Georgie to use in our duck hunting story. As usual, the image has been resized to our specifications.

“During that process, Photoshop automation created an image that was inconsistent with the original.

'This did not meet the high editorial standards we have and for this we apologize unreservedly to Ms Purcell.'

Ms Purcell is the youngest woman in any Australian parliament and the second-youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council of Victoria.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the heavily tattooed politician shared the image from the segment (left) alongside the original photo (right)

She recently told Daily Mail Australia about the horrifying moment photos of her working as a stripper while studying law at university were leaked online.

When she was 19, she thought her future dreams of working in law or politics were over. She came across the photos posted on Facebook.

“I worked far away from where I studied and grew up so I wouldn't meet anyone I knew, and while I felt there was nothing wrong with that kind of work, I knew many others would feel differently,” said Mrs. Purcell.

'Then one day I was at the hairdresser's and when I logged into Facebook I saw that I had been tagged in a photo of me working as a stripper without my consent, and there were a lot of comments.

“I grew up in a small country town in Geelong, so everyone knows everyone and it spread very quickly and viciously.”