AI image of woman and child facing Sudan gunmen goes viralpublished at 12:08 GMT
We’ve been working over the last few days to authenticate footage of killings carried out by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after capturing the city of el-Fasher earlier this week.
While much of the graphic material appearing online is real, one image that has gathered millions of views online was actually generated using artificial intelligence.
The image appears to show the shadows of two men holding guns in front of a woman on the ground holding a young boy. In the background there are scorch marks on the ground, as if to indicate that houses or tents have been torched.
How do we know it’s AI-generated?
There are some immediate visual clues which tell us it was made with AI, like how we can see what appears to be shadows of the men, but there are no shadows behind the woman.
The AI image being shared has a small watermark in the bottom left with a username. This led us to an Instagram account which first posted an animated version of this same scene.
The caption on the post says the scene is AI-generated and the creator describes themselves as a “Creative AI Specialist” in their profile.
In the animated scene, there are more obvious visual clues of AI generation, like how the woman’s and boy’s arms move through each other in impossible ways.
We also ran the image through Google’s deepfake detection tool and it found Google AI generation digital watermarks in the image.
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