Deepfake Palestinian man carries children out of rubble
An image of a man carrying children through rubble during Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip has been assessed as a probable deepfake. The deepfake image , which appears to show a man helping five children away from the scene of a destroyed building, was shared over 80,000 times on social media and was further amplified on X (formerly Twitter) of the Chinese embassy in France. Siwei Lyu , director of the Media Forensic Lab at the University of Buffalo, told AFP that the image classifies 'as AI generated by recent detection algorithms,' and highlighted irregularities in the hands and feet. The finding underscores concerns about the ease with which manipulated images are being developed and used to spread disinformation. The image is the latest in a series of deepfakes used during Israel's 2023 war with Hamas . Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Documents 📃 Deepfake image Operator: Developer: Country: Israel; Palestine Sector: Politics Purpose: Manipulate public opinion Technology: Deepfake - image; Machine learning Issue: Ethics/values; Mis/disinformation Fact check 🚩 AFP (2023). Image of Palestinian carrying children out of rubble shows signs of AI
- Date it happened
- 2023-11-01
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