2026-03-20
26 分钟In the last week, the Israeli prime minister has posted multiple videos
on social media reiterating that he is indeed alive.
But I have to tell you, I'm alive.
Just to be absolutely clear, he's definitely not dead.
But the reason Benjamin Netanyahu is sharing all these I'm alive messages is because there have been rumors circulating online,
in fact, you might have seen them on your feeds, that he was dead.
Photos depicting Netanyahu in the aftermath of an airstrike have been viewed millions of times.
The thing is, these photos were generated by AI.
And all of this got us wondering, are we now in the first AI slot war?
From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redman in London.
And I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.
And today on The Global Story, is the AI genie so far out of the bottle
that we can no longer trust our own eyes?
Now, to make sense of this wave of fake AI content we're seeing in this war,
we have two guests on today's show.
Coming up later, we'll be hearing from Peter Pomerantsev, who's written extensively about propaganda and disinformation.
And he's also written a book which has the rather brilliant title of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.
With a lot of AI, I mean,
it's really just an augmentation of what we've seen in social media, what we've seen historically.
Before we had AI, people were doing that with rumors.