Key Facts The image, which circulated on fringe Twitter pages just after 10 a.m. Monday morning, showed an explosion on a grass lawn outside the Pentagon (the original post has since been removed).

An image showing a fake explosion at the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, prompting a brief dip in the stock market, and raised further concerns about the real-life dangers of AI technology.

So @republic aired a ‘Live & Breaking’ news of Pentagon explosion image. They even invited Prof. Madhav Nalapat “strategic expert” to discuss about the explosion.

The image contains hallmarks of being generated using a text-to-image AI tool. Verified accounts on Twitter may have contributed to the viral spread of a false claim that an explosion was ...

A false report of an explosion at the Pentagon, accompanied by an apparently AI-generated image, spread on Twitter on Monday morning, sparking a brief dip in the stock market.

A fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon was shared by multiple verified Twitter accounts on Monday, causing confusion and leading to a brief dip in the stock market. Local ...

A deepfake of an explosion at the Pentagon that caused the stock market to dip exemplified the misinformation risks of generative AI. On Monday, a seemingly AI-generated image of what looked like ...

On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported small drop in the stock market. It originated from a verified ...

Confident that this picture claiming to show an "explosion near the pentagon" is AI generated. Check out the frontage of the building, and the way the fence melds into the crowd barriers.