(Bloomberg) -- An image of a bloodied corpse. A photo of a crying baby edited to look as if it were lying in rubble. Shots of what at first appears to be an entire neighborhood leveled in Gaza.
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There’s little doubt that deepfakes -- images and videos digitally altered and spread spread to form false narratives -- have been deployed by both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas.How profoundly they've worked to convince the masses on social media, shape public opinion, influenced decisions and proliferate, as many feared, with the use of generative artificial intelligence tools remains less clear.
The majority of the fake photos that have emerged on platforms including X and Facebook since Hamas attacked Israel two weeks ago are what Henry Ajder, an expert on deepfakes and generative artificial intelligence, call ``shock and awe'' images. The creators intended for them “very emotive, very sensational” and to elicit immediate emotional responses, he said.
For instance, one image on X — identified as fake by a deepfake detection tool created by a professor at the University of California at Berkeley — purports to show two children hugging...
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