Trains were cancelled in northwest England this week after a suspected AI-generated picture appeared to show major damage to a bridge following a rare earthquake.<\/p>\n
The 3.3 magnitude tremor was felt across Lancashire and the southern Lake District on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
While no damage was reported from the quake, a photograph spread on social media which appeared to show major damage to a bridge in Lancaster.<\/p>\n
Network Rail stopped services across the Carlisle Bridge for about an hour and a half as safety inspections were carried out.<\/p>\n
Thirty-two services, including passenger trains and freight trains, were delayed.<\/p>\n
Upon discovering the image was fake, the organisation urged people to think about the impact before creating or sharing hoax photos, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n
“The disruption caused by the creation and sharing of hoax images and videos like this creates a completely unnecessary delay to passengers at a cost to the taxpayer,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“It adds to the high workload of our frontline teams, who work extremely hard to keep the railway running smoothly.<\/p>\n
“The safety of rail passengers and staff is our number one priority, and we will always take any safety concerns seriously.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trains were cancelled in northwest England this week after a suspected AI-generated picture appeared to show major damage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145,1745],"class_list":["post-171053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}