As Hurricane Milton ripped across Florida, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, trolls and politicians alike spawned misinformation about the storm, questioning government preparations and calling it a “simulation” designed to hurt the Republican state.
But after it made landfall and exited into the Atlantic Ocean, there’s a new propaganda target among conspiracists: Walt Disney World in Orlando.
On Thursday morning, pictures were circulating on X, formerly Twitter, showing a flooded promenade at Disney World in Orlando with the Cinderella castle at its center.
“Hurricane Milton has flooded Disney World in Orlando,” wrote one known vector of disinformation on X, with the photos, which X users immediately noted was probably created using an automated AI image creator. The post has already been viewed over 300,000 times.
Other versions of the same, allegedly deceptive post were also translated into Spanish and other languages then spread across X. The platform has added a warning indicating the images are AI-generated fakes.
Still, that didn’t stop RIA Novosti, one of Russia’s top state-owned news agencies from reposting the images to its official Telegram channel.
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The Russian economy is 60% driven by fossil fuels. Oil puppet’s gonna oil puppet.
pine-cone-sundae on
Why do people even get into this? I really, really don’t understand the appeal. I want my information from people, not anonymous weird fucking obviously fake images. Is that so strange??
RwaarwR on
Russia, if you’re listening, you kind of need to pay attention to your own issues. You have your hands full, ya nosey tattletale, Karen biatch.
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All AI generated images should have a watermark type safety protocol imbedded in them automatically.
Master_Engineering_9 on
can we just cut off russia from our internet yet?
Thetman38 on
It’s not even good AI
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This is the way
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Just wait Russia until we point our space lasers at Moscow, going to be epic
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As Hurricane Milton ripped across Florida, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, trolls and politicians alike spawned misinformation about the storm, questioning government preparations and calling it a “simulation” designed to hurt the Republican state.
But after it made landfall and exited into the Atlantic Ocean, there’s a new propaganda target among conspiracists: Walt Disney World in Orlando.
On Thursday morning, pictures were circulating on X, formerly Twitter, showing a flooded promenade at Disney World in Orlando with the Cinderella castle at its center.
“Hurricane Milton has flooded Disney World in Orlando,” wrote one known vector of disinformation on X, with the photos, which X users immediately noted was probably created using an automated AI image creator. The post has already been viewed over 300,000 times.
Other versions of the same, allegedly deceptive post were also translated into Spanish and other languages then spread across X. The platform has added a warning indicating the images are AI-generated fakes.
Still, that didn’t stop RIA Novosti, one of Russia’s top state-owned news agencies from reposting the images to its official Telegram channel.
The Russian economy is 60% driven by fossil fuels. Oil puppet’s gonna oil puppet.
Why do people even get into this? I really, really don’t understand the appeal. I want my information from people, not anonymous weird fucking obviously fake images. Is that so strange??
Russia, if you’re listening, you kind of need to pay attention to your own issues. You have your hands full, ya nosey tattletale, Karen biatch.
l
All AI generated images should have a watermark type safety protocol imbedded in them automatically.
can we just cut off russia from our internet yet?
It’s not even good AI
This is the way
Just wait Russia until we point our space lasers at Moscow, going to be epic