A fake image of a Pentagon explosion went viral, causing a temporary market dip. Discover the impact of generative AI and the spread of disinformation in society.
the right wing and popular among some dedicated fans of donald trump. it s tough to tell why this person may have been spreading it, without first, i suppose, getting a bead on exactly where the image originated from. but usually in these cases, we find there is a number of reasons. it either boils down to people chasing those likes and views and follows. all people are wanting to be first with the news and they don t check it properly so they spread it that way and sometimes they deliberately try to cause trouble and they are trying to have an online fight. it is probably one of those reasons that is behind this in fake image. reasons that is behind this in fake image- reasons that is behind this in fake image. very interesting, thank you fake image. very interesting, thank you for fake image. very interesting, thank you for that fake image. very interesting, thank you for that analysis. i thank you for watching bbc
for more on this i spoke with the bbc s us national digital reporter, mike wendling. mike, explain how this spread so quickly. just after the markets opened this morning, this photo started circulating on twitter. it must have came from ex conspiratorial finance accounts, people who are into cryptocurrency and bitcoin that are extremely online, they started spreading it rather rapidly. if fooled some more mainstream people, as you indicated in your introduction. that caused the markets to react until authorities came out and said it was a hoax. the whole thing lasted a matter of minutes. can you tell us how you could tell that this image was fake? well, i suppose including our own open source researchers at bbc verify quickly spotted the tell tale signs these images were false. now, if you zoom in on the photo, if we were to show it to you, we could show you some details that clearly
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The image widely shared on Monday of a blast near the Pentagon turned out to be fake. Earlier, AI-generated photos of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s arrests had gone viral. With such pictures becoming more common day by day, here’s how you can spot fakes