Fake Image Showing An Explosion At The Pentagon Goes Viral On Social Media

Dozens of verified accounts, such as WarMonitors, BloombergFeed and RT, passed along the picture that shows black smoke billowing up from the ground next to a white building

Daily Mail: Early glimpse of the dangers of AI: Fake image showing an explosion at the Pentagon goes viral on Twitter - sending markets plummeting

* An AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral Monday

* The Pentagon confirmed to DailyMail.com that the image 'is false'

A suspected AI-generated image claiming to show an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter Monday, sending markets crashing.

Dozens of verified accounts - including national news organizations - reshared what shows black smoke billowing up from the ground next to a white building.

The image appears so realistic that people became frantic as it circulated the platform around 10 am ET, which caused the S&P 500 to drop 10 points in five minutes as the image went viral.

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Fake Image Showing An Explosion At The Pentagon Goes Viral On Social Media

FACT FOCUS: Fake image of Pentagon explosion briefly sends jitters through stock market -- AP

Fake AI-generated image of explosion near Pentagon spreads on social media -- The Guardian

AI-generated hoax of Pentagon explosion went viral, markets dipped -- Insider

Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI -- NPR

Market dips briefly after AI image of fake explosion near Pentagon goes viral -- The Hill

Fake AI image of Pentagon exploding goes viral on Twitter and causes US markets to plummet -- The Independent

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