{"id":426120,"date":"2026-08-07T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426120\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:54:09","slug":"fact-or-fiction-video-shows-delivery-robot-driving-off-san-diego-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426120\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact or Fiction: Video shows delivery robot driving off San Diego pier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(KGTV) \u2014 A social media video shows what the caption says is an Amazon delivery robot driving off the end of a pier at an unspecified marina here in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>According to the caption, Amazon is describing the incident as an &#8220;isolated navigation error&#8221; which it is reviewing.<\/p>\n<p>But the video is a fake.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/amazon-delivery-robot-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Snopes<\/a> did some digging and traced the original video to an Instagram poster who is a magician and frequent poster of AI-generated content.<\/p>\n<p>The video also contains Instagram&#8217;s AI label.<\/p>\n<p>Snopes also points out Amazon hasn\u2019t even used the robot for years, and it was never tested in San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KGTV) \u2014 A social media video shows what the caption says is an Amazon delivery robot driving off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-426120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}