Journalists and politicians fall for crude AI-faked chart, shattering assumptions
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-10-13
A German commentator reflects that he assumed AI-generated images were useless for fake news because everyone knows how easy they are to make. Yet journalists and politicians are falling in droves for a crudely AI-faked chart — showing that awareness of the technology offers no immunity, especially for chart-style forgeries that look like evidence.
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