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AI-generated images flood Facebook to drive engagement. Here's how to avoid being duped

Striking AI-generated images of service members, quadruplets or children in rubble are often shared on Facebook, and they could be used as part of a scam tactic.

VERIFY found multiple examples of these types of viral posts, including photos of children in rubble, quadruplets celebrating a birthday or military service members holding American flags while on a semitruck. VERIFY analyzed three different images shared on Facebook with the caption “why don’t pictures like this ever trend?,” including Kathy’s example, and found they were all created using artificial intelligence. Researchers at Georgetown and Stanford Universities studied more than 100 Facebook pages that regularly post AI content, and found that many of them are participating in scams and spam.

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