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No, This Image Does Not Show the "Before and After" of One of the "Areas of Nepal" Affected by the Flood: It Was Generated with AI. Maldita.es - Journalism so You Don't Get Fooled

Detection of the SynthID watermark in the OpenAI tool. Indications that the image was created with AI. Meta tag of “AI-generated content” in Facebook and Instagram posts. At Maldita.es we have already verified images and videos circulating associated with the flood of August 26, 2016, but which are out of context and did not actually happen there.

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Since Wednesday 26 August, impressive images have been circulating on social networks, testifying to the disaster in Nepal. Some are true, others are generated by artificial intelligence.

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After the flood in Nepal, two videos are broadcast from different angles of the tragedy and accumulate millions of visualizations. Fast Check described both as #Falsos. Multiple inconsistencies, such as deformations of bodies and disappearance of objects, reveal that they were generated with artificial intelligence.

Detection of the SynthID watermark in the OpenAI tool. Indications that the image was created with AI. Meta tag of “AI-generated content” in Facebook and Instagram posts. At Maldita.es we have already verified images and videos circulating associated with the flood of August 26, 2016, but which are out of context and did not actually happen there.

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