Incident #1493·Misinformation
Gemini and Grok Reportedly Misidentified Authentic Minab School-Strike Graveyard Photo as Unrelated Disaster Imagery
Description
Gemini and Grok reportedly gave false provenance claims about an authentic photo of graves prepared for victims of the Minab school strike, identifying it as disaster imagery from Turkey or Indonesia. Researchers verified the photo's location through satellite imagery and related visual evidence.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- xai
Alleged Developers
- xai
Harmed Parties
- epistemic-integrity
- shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school
- shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-school-community
- iranian-schoolchildren
- educational-communities
- minab-school-strike-victims-and-families
- minab-hermud-cemetery
- human-rights-investigators
- fact-checkers
- open-source-investigators
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Source
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