{"id":297046,"date":"2025-11-17T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297046\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:34:08","slug":"fact-check-ai-generated-scenes-from-frances-2025-louvre-heist-circulate-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297046\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Check | AI-generated scenes \u2018from France\u2019s 2025 Louvre heist\u2019 circulate in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers.<\/p>\n

A daring daytime heist of jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris on October 19 made international headlines.<\/p>\n

During the heist, the thieves parked a truck with an extendable ladder under the museum\u2019s Apollo Gallery, and used cutting equipment to get through a window and display cases to steal the jewellery.<\/p>\n

A Facebook reel<\/a> featuring footage purportedly of the theft was posted online by a Hong Kong-based user with more than 240,000 followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt around 9.30am, four masked men … broke into the building from the balcony and took away the jewellery on display,\u201d a voice said in Mandarin at the 41-second mark of the video, as two separate clips of masked people breaking glass cases are shown.<\/p>\n

\"AA screenshot of different points in the Facebook reel showing the two fabricated videos of the heist. Photo: Facebook\/SCMP Composite<\/p>\n

However, a digital forensics expert and the Post\u2019s own checks show they are not genuine, and likely generated by AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[155099,155100,228,226,227,71742,229,57119,88,10414,155101,5425,155102,130880,155103,1283,593,13096,57113,155104],"class_list":["post-297046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-ai-forensics","tag-apollo-gallery","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-cctv","tag-design","tag-douyin","tag-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-french-jewels","tag-hong-kong","tag-hongkongers","tag-louvre-museum","tag-natalia-stanusch","tag-openai","tag-paris","tag-post","tag-rednote","tag-scmp-fact-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}