Social media platforms are currently awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generated deepfakes. Between clips that supposedly show the Israeli Prime Minister sporting extra fingers and drinking from a bottomless, gravity-defying cup of coffee, only one thing is apparent: reality used to be much easier to prove.
There’s very little credible evidence to suggest that Netanyahu isn’t alive. But credibility is a rare commodity now that AI can convincingly clone real people across image, video, and audio formats, so it’s getting tougher to conclusively dispel the rumors. This …
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