Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online - The New York Times

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A wave of AI-generated images and videos depicting a fictional war with Iran spread across social media platforms in just hours, overwhelming fact-checkers and causing real-world confusion.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media - The New York Times
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X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
X introduced a country-of-origin display on profiles, exposing numerous US-focused political accounts as actually operated from countries like India and Israel, but the feature relies on IP geolocation that VPNs can bypass.
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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal | Grok AI
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