Masa Alimardani

And you can really see the real life impact of AI

not having good and clear information, even on the ground, in the ways that people are making decisions about their safety, about how to evacuate.

Yeah, so I think this has long existed even before AI.

The lie travels much faster than the truth.

So even when we have had well-known things that have been debunked, in my own kind of networks, I've seen it re-shared.

One really good example is, again, going to the first day of the war.

The day before, there was an AI-generated image of military tanks in a schoolyard.

kind of creating this narrative that civilian locations, schools can be justifiable targets for bombings.

And of course, the very next day, the first day of the war, you had a school bombed, even though very quickly within the first 24 hours, that AI generated image was very easily debunked

You could see the Google AI Gemini watermark on that photo.

People were still referencing that photo in replies to the news of the Minab school bombing.

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