The attached screenshot shows an AI-generated overview of Aung San Suu Kyi’s picture.<\/p>\n
It reads in part: “This image shows Aung San Suu Kyi, the former leader of Myanmar, during her detention in 2022. While it has recently circulated on social media as a ‘current’ photo, fact-checkers from AFP confirmed it is leaked CCTV footage from August 22, 2022.”<\/p>\n
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Screenshot of the false post taken May 6, 2026, with a red X added by AFP<\/p>\n
Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained since February 2021 when the military staged a coup that ended a decade-long democracy movement and sparked a civil war in the Southeast Asian nation.<\/p>\n
On April 30, 2026, junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing ordered<\/a> the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner to be transferred to house arrest (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n But her son, Kim Aris, says he has still not heard from his mother, who remains massively popular inside Myanmar.<\/p>\n Min Aung Hlaing’s office the same day shared the photograph, which depicts the former leader sitting in front of two men, one wearing a police uniform and the other in a military uniform.<\/p>\n AFP journalists in Yangon received the photo through the messaging app Viber. It was also published by state media\u00a0MRTV<\/a> (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n “We don’t know if it’s real or if it’s AI,” Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer, Francois Zimeray, said.<\/p>\n “We have had no proof of life, no photos for years, not even any indication that she was actually transferred. We still don’t know where she is,” he added.<\/p>\n AFP was not able to independently verify the picture released by the junta.<\/p>\n However, AFP has not fact-checked the picture as old, contrary to claims<\/a> that spread widely on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI mistake<\/p>\n An AFP journalist performed a Google reverse image search<\/a> of the photo and saw the incorrect search summary on April 30.<\/p>\n But the fact-check article<\/a> it linked to was published in February.<\/p>\n It concerned a different misrepresented image of Aung San Suu Kyi, where she appears next to former president Win Myint.<\/p>\n Comparison of photo released by the junta in April 2026 (L) and the misrepresented image fact-checked by AFP in February<\/p>\n Google has since updated the AI-generated summary to remove the incorrect reference to AFP’s earlier debunk.<\/p>\n A check on\u00a0May 7 found its description of the picture reads: “This photo, released by Myanmar state media on April 30, 2026, shows deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi after being moved from prison to house arrest in Naypyidaw.”<\/p>\n Screenshot taken on May 7 of the updated Google AI overview result<\/p>\n AFP reached out to Google for comment, but a response was not forthcoming.<\/p>\n In a post on its website, the company said the AI feature,\u00a0launched<\/a> in 2024, is evolving — and\u00a0advised<\/a> users to double-check responses as AI overviews “can and will make mistakes” (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Further reverse searches found no earlier versions of the image released by the junta online.<\/p>\n Separate\u00a0analyses using Google’s SynthID<\/a> and the\u00a0Verification Plugin<\/a>, also known as InVID-WeVerify, did not identify clear signs of AI generation or manipulation.<\/p>\n A senior police officer from Myanmar’s home affairs ministry told AFP:\u00a0“This photo is the real one meeting between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, deputy home affairs minister and chief of special branch police.”<\/p>\n “I think the photo was taken on the day of the amnesty order when they went there to inform her.”<\/p>\n![\"<span>Comparison](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd66da1a90198d44d75652b227324729.jpeg\"\/)
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