Video montage of the Beirut airstrike. In footage posted to X on Sunday night, a massive fire broke out on the city’s skyline, but the most dramatic scenes were created by artificial intelligence.
This clip purports to show intense footage of Israeli shelling of Lebanon The video was taken from a short video posted to TikTok five days ago by an account with the username @digital.n0mad, whose profile on the app lists him as an AI artist. The video was tagged as being from Beirut, but also came with a disclaimer that it was generated by AI, a label that also applies to some of the account’s other sensational video work. was.
AI video has some characteristics of computer-generated footage. The most obvious sign is that vehicular traffic is moving much faster than the fire. Additionally, the embankments next to the two large towers appear to have melted, and the roof lines of the large buildings are not connected to anything.
Following that segment, the second part of the X-video is actual footage of an Israeli airstrike carried out near Beirut’s international airport on Saturday night. The actual footage was broadcast live on the Lebanese television network Al-Jadeed and reviewed by CBS News.
The video, which includes a 5-second clip of AI-generated images, was posted by several prominent accounts, including University of Miami analyst and lecturer Lula Gebrel, who has more than 207,000 followers on X. It is. -Islamic Affairs, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., later deleted the post.
Jebreal did not respond to requests for comment, and CAIR did not elaborate on why it reposted the video.
In a statement to CBS News, the group pointed out that only the first few seconds show AI-generated content, and the rest of the video is actual footage from Beirut.
“This therefore appears to be one of the rare cases where the incorrect use of AI footage did not materially change anything about the points being made. It’s burning below,” a CAIR spokesperson said.
Since Israel stepped up its attacks on Lebanon’s Hezbollah two weeks ago, CBS News Confirmed has reviewed dozens of authentic videos from Beirut and other parts of the country, including It also includes clips of a large fire, secondary explosion, people running on the streets, and extensive damage. Misleading content is circulating on social media, but it usually takes the form of old footage reposted as part of the current conflict, rather than outright fake or doctored videos.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said more than 2,000 people had been killed in the past two weeks, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said during a visit to Lebanon on Sunday that more than 1 million people had been forced to flee their homes.
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