{"id":196678,"date":"2025-10-08T02:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196678\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:51:17","slug":"bindi-irwin-targeted-in-dozens-of-fake-ai-generated-posts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196678\/","title":{"rendered":"Bindi Irwin targeted in dozens of fake AI-generated posts &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">One post falsely claims that her brother announced that Bindi had collapsed and was taken to hospital, unconscious and in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">The post features what appear to be real images of her lying in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">\u201cRobert Irwin, in tears, announced that his 27-year-old sister, Bindi Irwin, had suddenly collapsed and was taken to the hospital,\u201d the post claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">However, a reverse image search reveals the images are screenshots from videos the conservationist posted about her battle with endometriosis on Instagram in May 2025 and March 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">There are no recent, credible news reports to suggest Bindi Irwin has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">Another post, which has been viewed more than 600,000 times in two days, claims Irwin recently performed with Elton John at Australia Zoo to celebrate her father\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">Photos attached to the post display clear signs of AI generation and have been mixed in with a historical photo of her on the TV show Dancing With the Stars in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">The clues that the main image is AI-generated include the piano, which appears to be chopped off and lacks the required set of legs to stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">Experts have previously told AAP FactCheck that similar pages use AI-generated content to generate clicks to sell advertising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">The practice is becoming more common as AI tools proliferate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">AAP FactCheck has previously debunked a series of false claims made by similar pages targeting the British royals and prominent celebrities in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg group-[.is-premiumproperty]:font-sans\">-with AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One post falsely claims that her brother announced that Bindi had collapsed and was taken to hospital, unconscious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-196678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}