Except this time, the widespread proliferation of AI slop is supercharging the trend, with denialists pointing to faked, AI-generated footage as \u201cproof\u201d of their claims with no apparent sense of irony.<\/p>\n
One particularly sticky video shows the crew of four astronauts hanging by harnesses in front of a large green screen. As France 24 points out<\/a>, it doesn\u2019t take much analysis to conclude that it\u2019s AI slop, from glitching overlaid text that interferes with the floating Artemis mascot in the shot to missing limbs and the wrong number of fingers on some of their hands.<\/p>\n Why anybody who actually believed NASA had faked its lunar flyby would choose to AI generate footage as counterevidence is a question worth asking. Is it a believer so die-hard that they\u2019re willing to use fake evidence to convince others of their cracked worldview \u2014 or is a troll getting a kick out of fooling gullible conspiracy theorists on social media?<\/p>\n If there\u2019s one certainty, it\u2019s that prevalent AI slop could further entrench belief in idiotic conspiracy theories, once again highlighting the dangers of the tech and how it\u2019s continuing to undermine the validity<\/a> of the information we encounter online \u2014 and consequently, the very concept of truth itself.<\/p>\n \t\t \n\t\t\t\tNASA’s Artemis II: conspiracy theories take off about \u2018staged\u2019 green screen \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\t\t\t<\/p>\n More AI-generated footage identified by the CBC<\/a> shows a fake shot of the interior of the spacecraft, which pans from the four astronauts to a view of the Earth outside a small window \u2014 leading to the obvious question of who could\u2019ve been recording the clip. Disinformation expert Tal Hagin found<\/a> that the footage was likely \u201can AI-spliced video using two different images,\u201d including a \u201cscreenshot of the Artemis II crew waving\u201d and an \u201cimage taken of Earth from one of the windows.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAI was used to connect the two,\u201d Hagin concluded.<\/p>\n The sheer scale of the trend is troubling. A simple search<\/a> for the term \u201cArtemis leaks\u201d on Elon Musk\u2019s X-formerly-Twitter \u2014\u00a0a platform that has long been plagued by a largely unmoderated mountain of AI slop and disinformation \u2014 reveals how widespread the trend is, from generated footage<\/a> of a fake Moon being hung in front of a green screen to brainrot claims<\/a> that NASA had used \u201cAI and CGI and green screens.\u201d<\/p>\n The situation doesn\u2019t look much better on Facebook, with \u201cflat earth\u201d accounts pointing to previously generated AI slop to argue<\/a> that NASA had used \u201cCGI to fake a space mission.\u201d<\/p>\n In short, the situation is painful to witness: people so convinced of a false reality that they\u2019re willing to fake evidence to support it.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776131594_202_hqdefault.jpg\"\/)
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