{"id":155876,"date":"2025-11-27T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/155876\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:33:08","slug":"japan-town-retracts-bear-sighting-warning-sparked-by-ai-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/155876\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan town retracts bear sighting warning sparked by AI image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese town has deleted a social media post warning of a bear sighting after discovering that a picture it had received showing the fearsome creature was generated using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Similar fake images have been circulating online as fear of bears runs high in the country, where the animals have killed a record 13 people this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe town prioritized informing residents to avoid danger, but we apologize for causing any anxiety or confusion,\u201d the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, said on its official X social media account on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Japanese town has deleted a social media post warning of a bear sighting after discovering that a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[345,28480,12158,85,46,55983,94276,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-155876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-fake-news","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-miyagi","14":"tag-onagawa","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}