Israel, Iran, the conflict unleashes the wave of misinformation from artificial intelligence

A wave of misleading information has been launched on the Internet since Israel began the strikes in Iran last week, with dozens of posts by BBC seeking to inflate the effectiveness of Tehran’s response.

Our analysis found a number of videos – created using artificial intelligence – is proud of Iranian military capabilities, as well as fake clips showing the effects of strikes on Israeli targets. The three fake videos that were shown collectively collected more than 100 million views through multiple platforms.

The accounts supporting the Israeli also participated in misleading information via the Internet, mainly by recycling the ancient clips and old gatherings in Iran, claiming that it appears to be opposed to escalation against the government and support between the Iranians of the military campaign of Israel.

Israel launched strikes in Iran on June 13, which led to several rounds of Iranian missiles and drones on Israel.

One of the organizations that analyzes open source images described the size of misleading information online as “amazing” and accused some “participating farmers” of seeking to benefit from the conflict by sharing misleading content to attract attention on the Internet.

“We are witnessing everything from non-relevant shots from Pakistan, and even recycled videos from strikes in October 2024-which have collected more than 20 million views-such as the game clips and content created by artificial intelligence as real events,” GEOCONFHERN wrote online.

Some novels have become a “superb spread” for misinformation, as it is rewarded with a significant growth in the number of their followers. One of the Iranian accounts of Iran witnessed the absence of clear ties to the authorities in Tehran – the daily army in Iran – its followers on X growing a little more than 700,000 on June 13 to 1.4 meters by June 19, an increase of 85 % in less than a week.

It is one of the mysterious accounts that appeared in people’s conclusions recently. They all have blue, prolific production in the correspondence and have repeatedly published misleading information. Since some seem to use official names, some people have assumed that they are original accounts, but it is not clear who is already running personal files.

Emmanuel Saliba, chief investigator of the analysts group, said that the distinctive misinformation was “the first time we have seen a widespread artificial intelligence during the conflict.”

The accounts reviewed by the BBC are achieved by the images that are being created frequently and that seem to be seeking to exaggerate the success of Iran’s response to Israel’s strikes. One image, which has 27 million views, depicts dozens of missiles falling in Tel Aviv.

Another video clip is to show a missile strike on a building in the Israeli city late at night. Mrs. Saliba said that the clips often depict night attacks, making it difficult to verify in particular.

AI Fakes has also focused on allegations of the destruction of Israeli F-35 Fighter, a US-made technical plane capable of hitting ground and air targets. Lisa Kaplan, CEO of Alythia Group, told BBC that the clips of the clips were real, that had destroyed 15 % of the Israeli fleet of fighters. We still have to authenticate any shots of the F-35s that are dropped.

One of the participants was widely claimed that he was showing a damaged plane after being shot down in the Iranian desert. However, signs of manipulation of artificial intelligence were clear: civilians around the plane were the same size as the nearby vehicles, and the sand did not show any signs of effect.

Another video clip containing 21.1 million views on Tiktok claimed that it shows the F-35 Israeli being dropped by air defenses, but the footage has already came from the flight simulation video game. Tiktok removed the shots after it approached the BBC verification.

Mrs. Kaplan said that some focus on the F-35s was driven by a network of accounts that althea had previously associated with Russian influence.

She pointed out that the Russian influence operations have recently turned from an attempt to undermine the support of the war in Ukraine to cultivate doubts about the ability of Western weapons – especially the American -.

“Russia does not really have a response to the F-35. So what can you do? You can seek to undermine support for it in certain countries,” said Ms. Kaplan.

Floive information is also published through well-known accounts that have already been affected by the Israeli-Gaza war and other conflicts.

Their motives differ, but experts said that some people may try to invest the conflict, as some major social media platforms offer payments to accounts that achieve large numbers of views.

On the contrary, the Israeli jobs were largely focused on suggestions that the Iranian government is facing opposition to escalating as the strike leader.

Among them is a wide video clip of artificial intelligence that falsely claims to show the Iranian chanting “We love Israel” in the streets of Tehran.

However, in recent days – and speculation of strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, some accounts began to publish images created from the artificial intelligence of B -2 on Tehran. B-2 has been closely interesting since Israel began to strike at Iran, because it is the only plane capable of carrying out an event Attack on Iranian nuclear sites.

Official sources in Iran and Israel shared some fake photos. Government media in Tehran participated in fake shots of strikes and a picture created by AI of the F-35 plane that was dropped, while a leaflet shared by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has received a societal note on X to use old shots related to missile weeds.

Many of the misleading information reviewed by BBC DePify has been shared on X, where users are frequently turned into Chatbot ai for the platform – Grook – to create the health of publications.

However, Grok insisted that artificial intelligence videos were real. One of this video showed an endless stream of trucks carrying ballistic missiles coming out of the side of the mountain. Mrs. Saliba said specific signs of artificial intelligence content included rocks in the video that is moving on its own.

But in response to X users, Grok has repeatedly insisted that the video was real and cited reports from the media including newsweek and Reuteers. “Check the reliable news for clarity,” Chatbot concludes in many messages.

X did not respond to a BBC request to verify the comment on Chatbot actions.

Several videos appeared on Tiktok and Instagram. In a statement to the BBC verification, Tiktok said it imposes the advice of society in a proactive manner “which prohibits inaccurate, misleading or wrong content” and that it works with independent facts of facts “to verify misleading content.”

Instagram Meta did not respond to the comment.

While the motives of those who create a fake online vary, many ordinary social media users are shared.

Facciani, a researcher at the University of Notre Dame, suggested that misleading information can spread more quickly online when people face binary options, such as those raised by conflict and politics.

“This talks about the broader social and psychological issue for people who want to re -share things if this is in line with their political identity, as well as in general, the most emotional content will spread more on the Internet.”