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A viral AI image of French riot victims traced to Google AI

Shayan Sardarizadeh, a senior journalist at BBC Verify, identified a viral image claiming to show an elderly couple robbed by rioters as AI-generated. SynthID watermarks showed it was created with Google AI; the image had over 6 million views and 63,000 retweets.

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Senior journalist at BBC Verify
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Shayan Sardarizadeh@Shayan86

This image, viewed over 6 million times and retweeted over 63,000 times, claims to show an elderly couple stripped down and robbed by rioters in France.

The image is AI-generated, and was created with Google AI, as detected by SynthID watermarks in the image.

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