{"id":22355,"date":"2026-03-17T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/a-photo-of-irans-bombed-schoolgirl-graveyard-went-around-the-world-was-it-real-or-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:37:46","slug":"a-photo-of-irans-bombed-schoolgirl-graveyard-went-around-the-world-was-it-real-or-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/a-photo-of-irans-bombed-schoolgirl-graveyard-went-around-the-world-was-it-real-or-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo of Iran\u2019s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war<\/p>\n<p>The graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters of people standing gathered around them. Dozens more are marked out on the ground in front: small chalk rectangles, with diggers poised to complete their task.<\/p>\n<p>The cemetery of Minab, photographed as it prepares to bury more than 100 of the town\u2019s young girls, is one of the defining images of the US-Israeli war on Iran, bluntly capturing the devastating civilian toll.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/mar\/17\/atrocity-ai-slop-verify-facts-iran-minab-graves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/350bae4f5f9a6f16c12c4e627e1b04f679a39e35\/1702_5_3168_2534\/master\/3168.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fa1b14baa418056c557446da4299d90a\" title=\"A photo of Iran\u2019s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?\" \/>Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war<br \/>\nThe graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters of people standing gathered around them. Dozens more are marked out on the ground in front: small chalk rectangles, with diggers poised to complete their task.<br \/>\nThe cemetery of Minab, photographed as it prepares to bury more than 100 of the town\u2019s young girls, is one of the defining images of the US-Israeli war on Iran, bluntly capturing the devastating civilian toll. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war The graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/a-photo-of-irans-bombed-schoolgirl-graveyard-went-around-the-world-was-it-real-or-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A photo of Iran\u2019s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}