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How to spot AI-generated disinformation

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 820 words · By Anna Desmarais
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What to know about How to spot AI-generated disinformation

Do independent research, look for clues in the image and trust expert fact-checkers are good ways to identify whether an image could be AI-generated.

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What happened

Do independent research, look for clues in the image and trust expert fact-checkers are good ways to identify whether an image could be AI-generated.

Why it matters

On the 10th annual International Fact-Checking Day, it is a good time to review how to identify AI-generated disinformation.

Common ground

This type of content is appearing everywhere, from the US-Iran war to the lead-up to the Hungarian elections, and even on individual feeds.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Images generated with Google's Gemini AI include an invisible digital watermarking tool called SynthID.”
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While Wikipedia mentions SynthID as a watermarking tool, it does not explicitly link it to Gemini AI models.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models (LLMs) developed by Google DeepMind, and the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Pro, Gemini Deep Think, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Fl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence, also known as generative AI or GenAI, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google LLC ( , GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum c…
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Claim 2: “Respondents were more likely to share and trust an AI-generated news story than one written by humans if they knew it dealt with a real news event.”
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No evidence from Wikipedia or other sources corroborates the claim about EU residents' preferences for AI-generated news.
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Claim 3: “Users can perform a reverse image search using Google's camera icon to verify image authenticity.”
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Wikipedia entries do not mention Google's reverse image search functionality or its use for AI detection.
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Claim 4: “The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) recommends checking if individuals in AI-generated images appear overly polished for the context.”
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No evidence from Wikipedia or other sources confirms GIJN's recommendations about overly polished images.
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Claim 5: “A recent study published in the journal PNAS Nexus asked 27,000 people from 27 EU countries to rank eight human- and AI-generated news headlines on how real they appeared.”
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Wikipedia entries provide no direct evidence of the 2023 PNAS Nexus study or its methodology. The cited entries discuss unrelated topics like algorithmic amplification and misinformation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Algorithmic amplification is the process by which automated ranking and recommendation systems on digital platforms increase the visibility of certain content beyond its initial audience. The term is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_amplification
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article lists a number of significant events in science that have occurred in the first quarter of 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January–March_2023_in_science
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. Whereas misinformation can exist with or without specific malicious intent, disinformation is deliberately deceptive and intentionally propagated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation
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Claim 6: “Fact-checking organizations like EFCSN, EDMO, and EUvsDisinfo publish research on AI-generated disinformation.”
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No evidence from Wikipedia or other sources confirms fact-checking organizations' research on AI disinformation.
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Claim 7: “AI detection tools like Winston AI, TruthScan, and Originality AI exist for identifying synthetic content.”
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Wikipedia entries do not mention specific AI detection tools or their existence.
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Claim 8: “Some AI creation tools add visible watermarks to generated content, which can often be removed or cropped.”
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No evidence from Wikipedia or other sources confirms AI tools' use of removable watermarks.
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Claim 9: “It is not always possible to determine whether an image is AI-generated.”
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Claim 10: “AI-generated videos may show inconsistencies like a car appearing and disappearing, or objects with unnatural sheen.”
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Wikipedia entries provide no information about AI-generated video inconsistencies or specific tools.
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Claim 11: “Nearly half of the AI-generated headlines were considered 'mostly' or 'completely real,' compared with 44 per cent of those written by humans.”
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Wikipedia entries on AI art, AI slop, and generative AI do not mention the specific study or percentage claims about headline perception.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence visual art, or AI art, is visual artwork generated or enhanced through the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) programs, most commonly using text-to-image models. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_art
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI slop (also known simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbai…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence, also known as generative AI or GenAI, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or…
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