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Media outlets were fooled by a verified Twitter account purporting to be part of Bloomberg that claimed there were large explosions outside the Pentagon and the White House.
A verified Twitter account used AI to create a picture of the Pentagon Complex under attack. Twitter later deleted it banned the account.
Several media outlets and millions of Twitter users took the fake verified Twitter account 'Bloomberg Feed' for a real Bloomberg-affiliated account, as it had a blue check.Twit
With algorithms scraping sites and social media for headlines to react to, the rise of AI photos has given individual investors another headache.
NEW YORK: A faked photograph of an explosion near the Pentagon spread widely on social media on Monday, briefly sending US stocks lower in possibly the first instance of an AI-generated image moving the market.