An image showing an apparent explosion near the Pentagon hit Twitter yesterday, posted by multiple verified accounts as a breaking story. Before the image was found to be fake, and most likely generated by artificial intelligence, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped around 80 points in four minutes but recovered the lost ground just three minutes later as the word spread that the image wasn’t real.
Experts say there were many signs that the image was AI-generated, including the fact that the building in the image doesn’t really look like the Pentagon. The University of California, Berkeley professor and digital forensic expert Hany Farid said it features “structural mistakes on the building and fence that you would not see if, for example, someone added smoke to an existing photo.”
Source: CNN