{"id":228330,"date":"2025-10-27T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:55:08","slug":"verified-video-shows-dam-breach-in-russia-after-ukraine-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228330\/","title":{"rendered":"Verified video shows dam breach in Russia after Ukraine strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grok misidentifies video of US military exercisepublished at 14:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p>14:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which is owned by social media firm X, has wrongly characterised a video from a US Marine flypast in California as being of a US military exercise near Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The footage shows a large number of military aircraft flying in formation down a beach and has spread widely online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One post by the Tehran Times, a newspaper considered to be heavily supportive of the Iranian government, gathered more than a million views on X and falsely claimed it shows a \u201cUS military exercise just off the Venezuelan border\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked by X users if this was true, Grok repeatedly confirmed the false claim, even incorrectly insisting that specific military aircraft are visible in the footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The video is actually from a 250th anniversary celebration and live fire demonstration by the United States Marine Corps on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic with a screenshot of the video showing at least six helicopters and 10 fighter jets flying over a beach. Nexto to it is a post on X from Grok labelled &quot;false&quot;, saying: &quot;&quot;The video depicts a recent U.S. Air Force exercise off Venezuela's coast, involving B-52 or B-1 bombers in a simulated attack demonstration. This aligns with Pentagon reports of operations targeting drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, including strikes since early September 2025. While Tehran Times frames it provocatively, multiple U.S. sources confirm the activity occurred around mid-October near Venezuelan waters.&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a5a2ab46-aa79-49ce-959f-c8318004bf6f.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"2024\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reverse image searches indicate that the footage was first uploaded to TikTok that day and we\u2019ve pinpointed the precise coordinates from where it was taken to a military base close to the Camp Pendleton in California, where the anniversary commemoration took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The individual behind the account has posted other videos from the same location and appears to be a member of the US military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tehran Times corrected its claim about 24 hours later in a post which has gathered far fewer views than the original false claim, which it still has not deleted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grok is no longer repeating the false claim. Asked why the error took place, the chatbot\u2019s creator xAI responded saying \u201cLegacy Media Lies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grok misidentifies video of US military exercisepublished at 14:15 GMT 14:15 GMT Thomas CopelandBBC Verify Live journalist The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-228330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}