An unprecedented wave of AI-generated misinformation about the US-Israel war with Iran is being monetised by online creators with growing access to generative AI technology ….
The platform X announced this week it will temporarily suspend creators from its monetisation programme if they post AI-generated videos of armed conflict without a label.
The scheme rewards eligible users whose posts create large numbers of views, likes, shares and comments with payments from the platform.
A new feature of this conflict … is the emergence of AI-generated satellite imagery.
A fabricated photo, shared on X by the state-linked newspaper The Tehran Times, began to spread the following day and claimed to show extensive damage to the base.
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The fake appears to be based on real satellite imagery of a US naval base in Bahrain taken in February 2025, which is publicly available online.
Experts [say] that while many social media companies say they are trying to change their moderation and detection systems to address the scale and speed at which AI-generated content spreads, there is no simple solution to the problem.
