AI ‘deepfakes’ of Hurricane Helene victims circulate on social media, ‘hurt real people’

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, misinformation has flooded the internet, including two doctored AI images of a desperate, sobbing child aboard a boat in supposed floodwaters. At first glance, the photos floating around online simply show a child in a lifejacket holding a dog as rain from the storm — the worst to hit the US since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — continues to drench them. A closer look, however, reveals several discrepancies between the two nearly identical photos, as reported by Forbes. In one photo, the child even...