They include AI videos depicting a tearful American soldier inside a bombed-out embassy, captured U.S. troops on their knees beside Iranian flags, and a destroyed U.S. navy fleet. Grok, X's own AI chatbot, appeared to make the problem worse, wrongly telling users seeking fact-checks that numerous AI visuals from the war were real. Even if X's demonetisation policy were strictly enforced, a vast number of X users peddling AI content are not part of the revenue sharing programme, researchers say. "X's policy is a reasonable countermeasure to viral disinformation about the war. "It is unlikely that X will be able to guarantee both high precision and high recall for this policy."


Source:   The Hindu
March 16, 2026 09:53 UTC