On October 13, 2023, statements appeared on social networks, as if a photograph of the Khamas child who died at the hands of the militants, shown by the prime minister of Israel, is a fake. It is reported that network users allegedly found the original, which captures a living puppy, and not a charred body. We checked the reliability of these messages.

On October 12, 2023, in the official English-language account of the Prime Minister of Israel on the social network X (formerly Twitter) Published Three pictures with the following signature: “Here are some photos that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Warning: these are terrifying photographs of babies killed and burned with monsters Hamas. ” The next day, publications spread on the Internet, which states that at least one of these pictures is a fake.

For example, in the Telegram channel of the leading Channel One Ruslan Ostashko (115,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) They said: “But there is a nuance. In the original photo, which was found on the Reddit site, a dog is depicted. And in pseudo -approval, artificial intelligence remade her. ” Colonelcassad channel (217,000 views) also Commented Allegedly fabricated photo: “Such a number of fakes from the Israeli authorities and Israeli media indicates a serious shortage of original materials, since it is necessary to engage in similar factories.” TV channel "Tsargrad" Additional: "As you know, the first victim of the war always becomes true." The authors of many Russian-speaking publications called the story with the exposure of the alleged fake "the failure of the propaganda of Israel"-such posts appeared in Telegram channels "KB +18"(225,000 views), Voblya 18+ (168,000), "Belarusian security officer"(136 000),"Oleg Tsarev"(66 000),"Gossip"(42 000),"Ramzai"(37,000),"Ax | Policy"(31 000),"Info DPR"(27,000) and"Therapy"(26,000), as well as in VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here).

From the editorial office: We are forced to warn readers that a photo published by the Israeli authorities is demonstrated in this material. This is a really terrible image. If you do not want to see it, please do not read the analysis.

Hamas radical Islamic movement (in Israel, USA, EU, Japan and a number of other countries Recognized terrorist organization) on the morning of October 7, 2023 Apply Massive missile attacks on Israel from the gas sector. At the same time, the militants entered the nearby Israeli settlements, where they attacked civilians, and military facilities. Soon appeared Messages that among the dead there are women, old people and minors - in particular, the representative of the Israeli Defense Army Jonathan Conricicus with reference to the data of the forensic expert declaredthat in kibbutz Beeri found the bodies of decapitated babies. At the same time, Hamas previously denied that during the attack, militants killed children. According to October 13, as a result of the attack, more 1300 Israelis, and the response of Israel is more 1500 Palestinians.

October 12, shortly after the emergence of a publication in the Account of the Israeli Prime Minister, one of the photos reposted On the social network X (formerly Twitter) American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. “Did you need visual evidence of the presence of dead Jewish babies? Here it is, miserable haters of Jews. Israel minimizes losses among the civilian population. But Israel will not allow those pieces of human shit that did this. Every ounce of blood spilled in gas on the account of Hamas, ”he wrote. The record scored more than 14 million views. In this case, some users in the reinforcements doubted In the authenticity of the photo due to the strangely looking brush of a person demonstrating the body of the child. It's all about a rubber glove, which was not completely stretched on the right hand, which is why the fingers of the captured person seem deformed. But part of the commentators decidedthat the picture was created by a neural network, since the strange -looking limbs are one of the main visual indicators AI-Arts.

The next day, Jackson Hinkle (American political blogger adhering pro -Russian positions) also accused Shapiro in the publication of supposedly fake photography. "The image that Ben Shapiro tried to give out for the burnt corpse of the child was a fake picture created by AI!" - He wrote on the social network X, where the post scored almost 8 million views. Hinkle reinforced his position with a screenshot with the results of analysis of the photo in the service Ai or notWhich, according to the assurances of the creators, determines with high accuracy whether the image was created by AI or a person. “Verified” also uploaded a picture in AI OR NOT, and, according to the analysis, a photo of a dead child was supposedly generated by a neural network. Under the tweet of Shapiro even appeared Community Notes ("Notes of the Community" - Note about context, which, according to some readers, will be useful to others) with the clarification that the photo is fabricated. However, later this dick was removed.

The fact is that in reality the work of the AI ​​or not service is far from perfect and it can hardly be called high -precision. In the remnants to the tweets of Shapiro and Hinkle, many users shared their screenshots with the results of the analysis of other own photos: in some cases service Installedthat the real works of neural networks were created by man, and in others - That real pictures are created using AI. Moreover, some users, when analyzing the same photo of a burned baby, received from AI or not another Result: the picture was not created by AI. At the time of writing, these findings are reflected in the updated Community Notes to Hinkle's tweet. In the summer of 2023 in the article The New York Times Compared The work of several services to determine the AI-images and found that some detectors (including used by Hinnle and other bloggers) do not always give correct results. Representatives of AI or not then did not respond to the request of journalists about the comment.

As for the photograph with the dog, it was encouraged after many Users steel send Her in Comments to the tweets of Hinkle and Shapiro, calling The original picture with the animal. As in most of the publications mentioned at the beginning of analysis, a photo with a puppy is not an independent image, but a screenshot of the post on a certain site. Despite the numerous allegations that the alleged original was discovered by Reddit users, an anonymous web-forum 4Chan is shown at the screenshot itself. This is understandable not only by design and interface - if you google the phrase from the post, then in issuance Google will be 4Chan, where the photo with the animal was placed in thread Under the name “Benkiro uses an image generated by artificial intelligence to discredit homos” (perhaps the original is an unexplosable play of words: Hamas - Hamas and Homos - “homosexuals”). Anonymous user wrote: “Here is an original photograph, they used a photo of the rescue of the puppy as a basis, and AI made the rest. Source: Dad works in Centicoma (The central command of the US Armed Forces. - Approx. Ed.). ”

Twitter Account Arlington Post conducted an analysis of error levels (Ela, a popular method for evaluating the authenticity of images) in the picture with the dog and in the photo of the body published by the prime minister of Israel. Online publication Concludedthat the photograph with the dead child was not subjected to changes, as evidenced by stable and uniform compression artifacts, sharpness of edges, noise patterns and brightness levels. But the picture with the dog has clear signs of digital processing, especially in suspicious areas along the contour of the dog: the edges look more sharp and bright, which indicates likely manipulations.

It was “verified” that the source was not a post on 4chan, but accompanied by a photograph and published after the recording of Netanyahu a user under the nickname Stellar Man, who wrote (the message is already deleted, but remained copy, preserved in Cache Google): “It took me five seconds to do it. It is already easy to create a convincing fake photo. It is more difficult to fake the video, but they will never show a video with proof. ” Когда снимок с собакой завирусился, Stellar Man I noticed: “What have I done, LMAO (Laughing my ass office, "I laugh until you drop." - Approx. Ed.). " As installed “checked”, the picture was placed on a 4Chan about 45 minutes after tweet.

Thus, a photo with a dead child, which is given out of the neural network, is actually genuine, and a picture with a dog, called the changed original, was created using artificial intelligence.

Photo on the cover: social networks / @stellarman22

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