{"id":216484,"date":"2026-01-02T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/216484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:39:07","slug":"bbc-verify-live-ai-images-among-real-footage-being-shared-of-iran-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/216484\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: AI images among real footage being shared of Iran protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysing AI-manipulated image of Iran protestspublished at 11:04 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:04 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Thomas Copeland and Ghoncheh Habibiazad<br \/>BBC Verify and BBC Persian<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve been verifying footage of cost-of-living protests across Iran during the last week which are reported to have claimed the lives of at least six people yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve also seen some images of real incidents during the protests which appear to have been manipulated using AI being shared online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One picture shared yesterday by the Israeli foreign ministry\u2019s Persian-language account on X appears to show a police officer spraying water at two men standing close by. Google\u2019s SynthID AI-watermark detector said the image was generated or edited using Google AI. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two frames from the real footage show the water cannon firing at protesters with the bottom panel showing the AI-manipulated image of a police officer spraying two men with a hose\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28402463-b918-4184-acaa-70c006f8ebc0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"524\" height=\"800\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This picture is based on real, verified footage from the Iranian city of Hamadan showing a police water cannon vehicle spraying protesters in the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the AI-manipulated version a police officer is seen spraying the two men directly from a hose at close range. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve contacted the Israeli foreign ministry for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analysing AI-manipulated image of Iran protestspublished at 11:04 GMT 11:04 GMT Thomas Copeland and Ghoncheh HabibiazadBBC Verify and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-216484","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-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216484","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=216484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}