How AI-generated images are being used to deny the massacre of protesters in Iran

 France 24 

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"After a widely-shared image showing hundreds of bodies piled up in a morgue in Tehran turned out to have been AI-generated, supporters of the Iranian regime have been using the picture to cast doubt on a real photo taken in the same morgue." . .

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. . . "Our team was able to verify the authenticity of a number of different videos from the Kahrizak morgue, some filmed in the same courtyard where the woman in the photo is standing. These videos helped us confirm that the scene captured in the photo did take place. Other videos and photos taken from different angles also show that there were many bodies laid on the ground of the morgue’s courtyard. 

"In the upper left is the authentic photo of a young woman that pro-government accounts falsely claimed was AI-generated. The images to the bottom left and centre are screenshots taken from two videos filmed in the Kahrizak morgue. You can see the same wall (outlined in red) in all three images. At right is a satellite image of the morgue. The wall is outlined in red. A building that also appears in the photo of the young woman in mourning is outlined in blue in the satellite image. Marked in yellow is the chimney of one of the morgue’s buildings that appears in one of the videos. The star represents the location where the young woman is standing. The outlines were added by the FRANCE 24 Observers team. © X/Telegram, Observers, Vantor.

"This footage allows us to establish that the image of the woman in mourning was indeed taken at the Kahrizak morgue. Using a satellite image of the morgue that was provided to our team by the satellite image company Vantor, as well as two verified videos filmed in the courtyard of the morgue, it is possible to establish where the young woman was standing: in front of the entrance to a large building with a red roof. A brown-and-beige wall appears in both videos and the photo. Moreover, a white building in the background of the photo of the young woman can be seen in the satellite image." . . . More...