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To be clear: I have no idea about the factuality of this, but it's being widely referenced in discussions about the supposed event: https://twitter.com/Kobeiss
by tpmx 3y ago
To be clear: I have no idea about the factuality of this, but it's being widely referenced in discussions about the supposed event:
https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1660664125574217731/photo/2 https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/166066412557421773...
This morning, an AI generated image of an explosion at the US Pentagon surfaced.
With multiple news sources reporting it as real, the S&P 500 fell 30 points in minutes.
This resulted in a $500 billion market cap swing on a fake image.
It then rebounded once the image was confirmed fake.
- damnesian 3y agoMakes you wonder about the credulity of these news sources. Like the average person I consumer news every day, and this post on HN at nearly 5:00 PM local time is the first I am hearing of it.
- pohl 3y agoI heard about it mid-day in the context of how it was spread by verified accounts on $8chan (the microblogging site formerly known as Twitter) and picked up from there by news feeds.