{"id":288319,"date":"2025-11-28T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288319\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:25:12","slug":"japan-town-retracts-bear-sighting-warning-sparked-by-ai-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288319\/","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":288320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[554,2851,4665,23132,30669,3715,117025,117024,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-288319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ai","tag-animals","tag-bears","tag-fake-news","tag-local-government","tag-misinformation","tag-miyagi","tag-onagawa","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288319","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=288319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}