“A path to peace may finally be in sight between the two nations,” he adds before the clip cuts to a group of protesters holding Iranian flags while appearing to apologise to Israel.<\/p>\n
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The Middle East foes traded devastating missile attacks after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign on June 13 targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0strikes left more<\/a>\u00a0than 900 people dead in Iran and 28 people dead in Israel (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n A ceasefire between Iran and Israel took effect on June 24.<\/p>\n The fabricated CNN video surfaced elsewhere on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> and TikTok<\/a>, racking up more than a million views in total.<\/p>\n Several users seemed to believe the report was genuine.<\/p>\n “Very good Iran. Peace. God bless Iran and Israel,” one commented.<\/p>\n “Good job Iran. Better to be humble,” another said.<\/p>\n CNN’s senior vice president of communications Emily Kuhn dismissed the posts.<\/p>\n “This is a fake video and never aired on CNN,” Kuhn told AFP on July 2.<\/p>\n The footage also bears signs it was AI-generated.<\/p>\n Compared to genuine CNN coverage<\/a> of Iranians at a pro-government rally on June 25, the “live” label above the CNN logo is misspelled and the\u00a0usual timestamp and name of the news programme<\/a> are instead made up of jumbled characters.<\/p>\n Screenshot comparison of the false post, with the chyron zoomed in using Forensically (L) and a June 25 CNN TV report on a protest in Iran<\/p>\n Additionally, the news anchor’s mouth does not move in accordance with his speech, another hallmark of AI-altered footage.<\/p>\n Despite the meteoric progress in Generative AI, errors still show up in AI-generated content. These defects<\/a> are the best way to recognise a fabricated image.<\/p>\n The overly smooth skin and hair of the protesters suggest the video was AI-generated, as AFP previously noted in its video tutorial<\/a> on spotting inauthentic visuals.<\/p>\n Screenshot of the false Facebook post, with AI-generated features highlighted by AFP<\/p>\n A\u00a0reverse image search<\/a> on Google using keyframes<\/a> from the video found the clip was earlier shared on TikTok<\/a> on June 24.<\/p>\n The post shows the video was taken from another user whose account is named “Ai VIDEOS”.<\/p>\n While the circulating clip does not appear on the user’s profile<\/a>, a review of the account shows similar AI-generated news reports (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n The clips bear an identical “AI VIDEO” text at the lower right corner of the frame.<\/p>\n Screenshot comparison of the falsely shared clip (L) and the Ai VIDEOS TikTok post<\/p>\n AFP has\u00a0debunked<\/a> a wave of AI-generated visuals being falsely linked to the Iran-Israel conflict (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n![\"<span>Screenshot](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/73476d8ea4ea1039965b815bcd931f8d.jpeg\"\/)
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