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Fake Explosions, Fake Missiles, Fake Troops: AI Videos and Images of Iran War Spread Widely on Social Media
AI-generated war fakes on social media have reached tens of millions of views, complicating misinformation during the Iran conflict, experts say.
- Last week, experts said AI-generated videos and images have racked up tens of millions of views on social media platforms, notably X, which announced action against wartime AI fakes.
- Generative AI's wider availability last year enabled very believable custom videos and stills, while polarization and social media algorithms increased their reach amid reduced moderation.
- On social media platforms, fake images and videos claiming Iranian military actions and the death of Ali Khamenei have garnered tens of millions of views, with some AI outputs still carrying watermarks or being misidentified as real by platform tools.
- Debunkers say new fakes appear faster than they can be debunked, raising public risks as detection becomes extremely difficult, experts warn.
- Looking ahead, experts note X's creator payment program may struggle with enforcement as AI-generated fakes about Iran's war spread faster than debunking efforts, despite policy updates.
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The Toronto Star
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Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake troops: AI videos and images of Iran War spread on social media
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Washington Top News
After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social networks were filled with gross fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war, but that were fakes retouched with Photoshop or mislabeled clips taken from video games, movies, past incidents and non-related news coverages. This kind of antiquated fakes are spreading again during the war against Iran. This time, they have been joined by a form of deception that was not readily available in 2022:…
Fake, AI-generated images and videos of the Iran war are spreading on social media
Fake videos and images depicting fake attacks and fake troops have racked up tens of millions of views on social media platforms in the nearly two weeks since the Iran war began.
There has been an explosion of fake AI videos from the war in the Middle East on social media: “We have passed a technological point where it is no longer possible for the user to distinguish between real and fake videos,” technology expert Hans-Petter Nygård-Hansen tells Nettavisen.
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