Only the first photo is real.
- altered hand in “Trump grab” photo, see original: https://t.co/JObiqOEcHU
- bottom row: children were added using AI. See: https://t.co/j7Gq4hPOig
No they didn't. That image is not from CIA and it's fake, see https://t.co/ZI9uGcuhmw
CIA was interested in these topics back in 1980s, see https://t.co/Xy9KHlQLuS but they didn't solve consciousness
Our global digital investigation team at AFP has been hard at work debunking disinformation about the Iran-Israel war and the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, in multiple languages.
Here are some English-language claims we have debunked:
https://t.co/WSVbrFq2Cf
This video of Trump cheating at golf is fake.
A reverse image search uncovers the original clip from 2023 which shows Trump hitting the ball.
The altered video includes a watermark for an account belonging to "graphic satirist."
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As usual for major news events, disinformation on social media is running unchecked during the #LAProtests
So people are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT for fact-checking
The problem is, the bots are making the situation much worse
https://t.co/07IBD1sgHq
If you've been wondering about the reliability of Grok and other AI chatbots as fact-checking tools, especially in breaking news situations, here's an interesting case.
All these answers were given by Grok within the last hour about two photos of National Guard troops.
Fascinating piece from @stuartathompson on @dom_lucre and how he works to post engagement farming tweets all day, everyday for what is a pretty minuscule return -- about $55k/year (less, really). It confirms everything you suspected about how this works.
https://t.co/b9GZYK09Gk
An @AFP investigation found hundreds of fabricated Pope Leo XIV speeches, in English and Spanish, underscoring how easily hoaxes created with AI can elude detection and dupe viewers.
YouTube and TikTok have since removed multiple pages posting the fakes.
https://t.co/9UDqgGUubC
Several people have asked what happened to my website. It was simply downgraded to a free Wordpress account: https://t.co/vVOIY7wQgD because currently I don't want to pay for hosting and domain name
This @CardPrevost X account has quickly added tens of thousands of followers since the election of Pope Leo XIV, but it is a fake impersonating the new pontiff.
Replies to its oldest live post, from 2024, indicate that it was previously using the handle "HanKangOffic."
This video, first published by a conspiracy account on TikTok, which claims to show CCTV footage of Keir Starmer and Labour donor Lord Alli kissing, is fake and was likely created with AI.
The timestamp, hands behind the neck and arms make no sense.
You may have seen viral posts like this about Elon Musk saving a seven-year-old girl's life via a Neuralink device implanted into her brain.
The image in the post is AI-generated and there's zero evidence that this story ever happened. It's pure fiction for online engagement.
With the level of confusion Generative AI is now consistently causing in relation to major news events, I feel like it might be time for a comprehensive thread offering a step-by-step guide on spotting and verifying AI-generated content, including AI audio clips, images and videos.
It will take a bit of time, but is probably worth the effort, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, you can find my other verification and media literacy threads here:
How to verify online images using reverse image search:
https://t.co/3naMKjdHLn
How to verify if screenshots of online posts are real or not:
https://t.co/FHNL3De1uu
How to spot spam and scam networks online
https://t.co/llDJJkFlAg
@Shayan86 and I have now found a video version of this AI image of Pikachu and it has more telltale signs of generation:
- a police baton appears to shape shift
- video has more obvious AI sheen
- everyone is moving in slow motion, which is typical of AI videos we’ve seen