Photo said to show business jet about to crash in Florida is fake; image was created with AI
A g1 fact-check used an OpenAI detection tool, which indicated the image was fabricated with the company's own technology.
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A photo is circulating on social media that supposedly shows the private jet that crashed in Florida, in the United States, on Sunday (1st), in the instant before impact with the ground. g1, in its Fato ou Fake project, concluded that the image is false and was generated by artificial intelligence.
The image shows a jet about to hit head-on a road full of vehicles and was posted on Instagram, Facebook and X with captions such as one calling the case a "horrible accident." The posts omit that it is fabricated material.
The fact-check used an OpenAI detection tool, which indicated that the content was created with one of the company's own AI tools.
The content went viral the day after a plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in Florida. According to g1, the aircraft was a Learjet 60, a private jet that had taken off from the airport in Austin, Texas, and the crash left nine dead.
The case shows how synthetic images quickly begin circulating after real tragedies, reinforcing the need to check the origin of photos before sharing them.