Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation
以色列 - 伊朗冲突释放了AI虚假信息的浪潮
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A wave of disinformation has been unleashed online since Israel began strikes on Iran last week, with dozens of posts reviewed by BBC Verify seeking to amplify the effectiveness of Tehran's response. Our analysis found a number of videos - created using artificial intelligence - boasting of Iran's military capabilities, alongside fake clips showing the aftermath of strikes on Israeli targets. The three most viewed fake videos BBC Verify found have collectively amassed over 100 million views across multiple platforms. Pro-Israeli accounts have also shared disinformation online, mainly by recirculating old clips of protests and gatherings in Iran, falsely claiming that they show mounting dissent against the government and support among Iranians for Israel's military campaign. Israel launched strikes in Iran on 13 June, leading to several rounds of Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel.
自从以色列上周开始对伊朗罢工以来，一波虚假信息已在网上释放，英国广播公司（BBC）验证了数十篇文章，试图扩大德黑兰反应的有效性。我们的分析发现，使用人工智能制作了许多视频 - 吹嘘伊朗的军事能力，以及伪造的剪辑，显示了以色列目标的罢工后。BBC验证的三个伪造视频最受欢迎的视频综合了多个平台的1亿次观看次数。亲以色列的帐户也在网上共享了虚假信息，主要是通过循环伊朗的抗议活动和聚会片段，错误地声称他们表明对政府的反对意见和伊朗人在以色列军事运动中的支持。以色列于6月13日在伊朗发动罢工，导致了几轮伊朗导弹和无人机袭击以色列。
One organisation that analyses open-source imagery described the volume of disinformation online as"astonishing" and accused some"engagement farmers" of seeking to profit from the conflict by sharing misleading content designed to attract attention online."We are seeing everything from unrelated footage from Pakistan, to recycled videos from the October 2024 strikes—some of which have amassed over 20 million views—as well as game clips and AI-generated content being passed off as real events," Geoconfirmed, the online verification group, wrote on X. Certain accounts have become"super-spreaders" of disinformation, being rewarded with significant growth in their follower count. One pro-Iranian account with no obvious ties to authorities in Tehran - Daily Iran Military - has seen its followers on X grow from just over 700,000 on 13 June to 1.4m by 19 June, a 100% increase in under a week. It is one of many obscure accounts that have appeared in people's feeds recently. All have blue ticks, are prolific in messaging and have repeatedly posted disinformation. Because some use seemingly official names, some people have assumed they are authentic accounts, but it is unclear who is actually running the profiles. The torrent of disinformation marked"the first time we've seen generative AI be used at scale during a conflict," Emmanuelle Saliba, Chief Investigative Officer with the analyst group Get Real, told BBC Verify. Iran's secretive nuclear site that only a US bomb could hit
一个分析开源图像的组织将在线虚假信息的数量描述为“惊人”，并指责一些“参与农民”通过共享旨在吸引在线注意力的误导性内容来寻求从冲突中获利的。Geoconfirm在网上验证小组上写道：“我们看到了从巴基斯坦无关的录像到2024年10月的罢工的回收视频（其中一些已经积累了2000万次观看次数），就像游戏剪辑和AI生成的内容一样，随着真实事件的传递，Geoconfirm compliment，在线验证小组在X上写道。一个亲伊朗的账户与德黑兰的当局没有明显关系 - 伊朗军方 - 看到其X上的追随者从6月13日的70万人增长到6月19日，到6月19日，一周不到100％。这是最近出现在人们供稿中的众多晦涩的帐户之一。所有人都有蓝色tick虫，在消息传递方面具有多产，并且反复发布了虚假信息。因为有些人看似正式的名称，所以有些人认为它们是真实的帐户，但目前尚不清楚谁实际上正在运行这些资料。分析师小组首席调查官Emmanuelle Saliba对BBC Verifie表示：“冲突期间我们第一次使用生成型AI在大规模上使用了生成的AI”，这是“我们首次看到生成AI的洪流”告诉BBC验证。伊朗的秘密核遗址，只有美国炸弹才能击中
US moves 30 jets as Iran attack speculation grows
随着伊朗攻击猜测的增长，美国移动30架喷气机
Is the UK about to get dragged into Iran-Israel conflict? Accounts reviewed by BBC Verify frequently shared AI-generated images that appear to be seeking to exaggerate the success of Iran's response to Israel's strikes. One image, which has 27m views, depicted dozens of missiles falling on the city of Tel Aviv. Another video purported to show a missile strike on a building in the Israeli city late at night. Ms Saliba said the clips often depict night-time attacks, making them especially difficult to verify. AI fakes have also focussed on claims of destruction of Israeli F-35 fighter jets, a state-of-the art US-made plane capable of striking ground and air targets. If the barrage of clips were real Iran would have destroyed 15% of Israel's fleet of the fighters, Lisa Kaplan, CEO of the Alethea analyst group, told BBC Verify. We have yet to authenticate any footage of F-35s being shot down. One widely shared post claimed to show a jet damaged after being shot down in the Iranian desert. However, signs of AI manipulation were evident: civilians around the jet were the same size as nearby vehicles, and the sand showed no signs of impact.
英国是否要陷入伊朗 - 以色列的冲突？英国广播公司（BBC）审查的帐户经常共享AI生成的图像，这些图像似乎正在试图夸大伊朗对以色列罢工的反应的成功。一张图像有2700万的观点，描绘了特拉维夫市落在特拉维夫市上的数十枚导弹。另一个视频据称是在深夜在以色列城的一栋建筑物上显示的导弹罢工。萨利巴女士说，这些剪辑经常描绘夜间攻击，使其特别难以验证。AI假货还专注于销毁以色列F-35战斗机的主张，这是一架可击球和空气目标的最先进的美国制造的飞机。Alethea Analyst Group首席执行官丽莎·卡普兰（Lisa Kaplan）告诉BBC Verifie，如果伊朗真正的武器是真正的伊朗，伊朗将摧毁以色列战斗人员的15％。我们尚未验证任何被击落的F-35的镜头。一位广泛分享的职位声称在伊朗沙漠被击落后显示一架喷气机损坏。但是，AI操纵的迹象很明显：喷气机周围的平民与附近的车辆相同，沙子没有撞击的迹象。
Another video with 21.1 million views on TikTok claimed to show an Israeli F-35 being shot down by air defences, but the footage actually came from a flight simulator video game. TikTok removed the footage after being approached by BBC Verify. Ms Kaplan said that some of the focus on F-35s was being driven by a network of accounts that Alethea has previously linked to Russian influence operations. She noted that Russian influence operations have recently shifted course from trying to undermine support for the war in Ukraine to sowing doubts about the capability of Western - especially American - weaponry."Russia doesn't really have a response to the F-35. So what can it do? It can seek to undermine support for it within certain countries," Ms Kaplan said. Disinformation is also being spread by well-known accounts that have previously weighed in on the Israel-Gaza war and other conflicts. Their motivations vary, but experts said some may be attempting to monetise the conflict, with some major social media platforms offering pay-outs to accounts achieving large numbers of views. By contrast, pro-Israeli posts have largely focussed on suggestions that the Iranian government is facing mounting dissent as the strikes continuer Among them is a widely shared AI-generated video falsely purporting to show Iranians chant"we love Israel" on the streets of Tehran. However, in recent days - and as speculation about US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites grows - some accounts have started to post AI-generated images of B-2 bombers over Tehran. The B-2 has attracted close attention since Israel's strikes on Iran started, because it is the only aircraft capable of effectively carrying out an attack on Iran's subterranean nuclear sites. Official sources in Iran and Israel have shared some of the fake images. State media in Tehran has shared fake footage of strikes and an AI-generated image of a downed F-35 jet, while a post shared by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) received a community note on X for using old, unrelated footage of missile barrages. A lot of the Disinformation reviewed by BBC Verify has been shared on X, with users frequently turning to the platform's AI chatbot - Grok - to establish posts' veracity. However, in some cases Grok insisted that the AI videos were real. One such video showed an endless stream of trucks carrying ballistic missiles emerging from a mountainside complex. Tell-tale signs of AI content included rocks in the video moving of their own accord, Ms Saliba said.
另一个对蒂克托克（Tiktok）观看次数有2110万次观看次数的视频声称显示，以色列F-35被防空击落，但录像实际上来自飞行模拟器视频游戏。Tiktok在BBC验证接近后删除了录像。卡普兰女士说，对F-35的一些关注是由Alethea以前与俄罗斯影响力相关的帐户网络所驱动的。她指出，俄罗斯的影响力最近已从试图破坏对乌克兰战争的支持转变为对西方人（尤其是美国 - 武器的能力）的怀疑。卡普兰女士说：“俄罗斯真的没有对F-35的回应。那么它可以做什么？它可以试图破坏某些国家 /地区对此的支持。”著名的叙述也在以前对以色列加沙战争和其他冲突进行过的著名账目传播。他们的动机各不相同，但专家表示，有些人可能正在尝试通过一些主要的社交媒体平台来货币化冲突，从而为您的账户提供了大量观点的付款。相比之下，亲以色列的职位主要集中在伊朗政府面临持久异议的建议上，因为其中的罢工持续不断，这是一个广泛共享的AI基础视频，虚假地表明伊朗人在德赫兰的街上向伊朗唱着“我们爱以色列”。但是，最近几天 - 随着对美国在伊朗核场地的罢工的猜测，一些帐户已经开始在德黑兰上发布B -2轰炸机的AI生成图像。自从以色列对伊朗的罢工开始以来，B-2引起了人们的关注，因为它是唯一能够有效地对伊朗地下核场所进行攻击的飞机。伊朗和以色列的官方消息来源分享了一些假图像。德黑兰的州媒体分享了罢工的假镜头和落下的F-35喷气式飞机的AI生成的图像，而以色列国防军（IDF）共享的一篇文章收到了X上的社区票据，用于使用旧的，无关的导弹弹幕。BBC验证审查的许多虚假信息已在X上共享，用户经常转向该平台的AI聊天机器人-Grok-建立帖子的真实性。但是，在某些情况下，Grok坚持认为AI视频是真实的。一个这样的视频显示，从山腰建筑群中涌现出弹道导弹的无休止的卡车流。Saliba女士说，AI内容的讲述迹象包括自己的视频中的岩石。
