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\n Wednesday evening on the MAGA cable channel OAN, as Defense Department spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson gushed to host Matt Gaetz about an alleged year-over-year increase in female military recruits, four images of women soldiers<\/a> in combat fatigues were displayed on-screen.\n <\/p>\n \n All four images were AI fakes.\n <\/p>\n \n The images appear to have been generated using Elon Musk\u2019s Grok\ufeff, as small watermarks in the bottom corners indicate.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThese numbers are fantastic,\u201d Wilson told Gaetz as the AI images scrolled on-screen. \u201cUnder the previous administration, we had about 16,000 female recruits last year; now we\u2019ve got upwards of 24,000,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt is a testament to Secretary Hegseth and President Trump\u2019s leadership.\u201d (The Pentagon has not officially released detailed data on female recruitment, but it told Fox News<\/a> those same figures.)\n <\/p>\n \n A DOD spokesperson said the images were not provided by them, so CNN on Thursday asked OAN whether its staff generated the photos and if the network has any policy regarding AI-generated content.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe images violated company policies, which have been re-enforced with all staff,\u201d an OAN spokesperson told CNN. \u201cAn on-air correction has been put in place. Management has taken additional actions to ensure the issue is appropriately addressed.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n During Thursday evening\u2019s broadcast, Gaetz apologized for using the AI-generated images.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe made a mistake,\u201d Gaetz said. \u201cWe used AI-generated images of female service members as part of our B-roll package, and we shouldn\u2019t have. The DOD didn\u2019t give us these images; Grok did. And we\u2019ll use better judgment going forward.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n OAN, short for One America News, launched in 2013, and during Trump\u2019s first administration, it quickly morphed into a conspiracy-heavy, MAGA-boosting outlet.\n <\/p>\n \n The little-watched cable channel has become best-known for promoting Trump\u2019s 2020 election lies, and it has settled multiple defamation lawsuits resulting from those on-air claims. Last year, the network settled a lawsuit<\/a> from voting technology company Smartmatic alleging the channel boosted the election lies in order to \u201cincrease viewership and revenue.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The network also settled a defamation suit<\/a> from a Dominion Voting Systems executive, but it still faces a separate defamation lawsuit from the company.\n <\/p>\n \n OAN\u2019s viewership and revenue have dwindled since DirecTV dropped it<\/a> in 2022. However, earlier this year, it received a PR boost when Kari Lake, Trump\u2019s pick to run a hollowed-out Voice of America, claimed that OAN<\/a> will provide \u201cnewsfeed services\u201d to VOA and other US-funded international broadcasters.\n <\/p>\n \n This story has been updated with comments from OAN and Gaetz.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Wednesday evening on the MAGA cable channel OAN, as Defense Department spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-72176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"OAN](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/labeled-16x9-ai-generated-image-oan-used-on-air-copy-2.jpg\")
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