We're looking into false claims being spread in the wake of a US immigration agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis
AI has been used to generate to spread misinformation, including attempts unmask and identify the agent involved
The team are also examining recent clashes in Syria, after days of fighting between Kurdish fighters and government forces in the city of Aleppo
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As footage from yesterday’s deadly shooting in Minneapolis has spread online, BBC Verify has seen many attempts to use AI to unmask the ICE agent involved in the shooting.
At no point in the footage reviewed by BBC Verify does this agent remove his mask, but screenshots of him have been fed into AI-generation tools in an effort to identify him.
Many of these AI-manipulated images have circulated widely across social media without being labelled or explained as being AI.
We’ve reported before on misinformation fuelled by “AI-enhanced” images of President Trump, a man suspected of shooting Charlie Kirk and a picture from the Epstein files
As you can see, attempts to use AI to generate the ICE agent’s face without a mask has resulted in very different outcomes every time.
That’s because when you ask AI to generate an image it can only make a prediction based on the images it has been trained on Prof Thomas Nowotny,...
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