Satellite tv for pc image stated to indicate injury to US Navy base is AI fauxrevealed at 11:55 GMT
Thomas Copeland
BBC Confirm Reside journalist
A picture claiming to indicate injury to a US naval base in Qatar as seen from area is an AI faux, based mostly on an previous satellite tv for pc picture from a unique place.
The picture, posted on X by Iran’s state-aligned Tehran Occasions and shared broadly on-line over the weekend, claims it exhibits destroyed US radar gear in Qatar.
The faux image of injury seems to be based mostly on actual satellite tv for pc imagery of a US base in Bahrain from February 2025, which is publicly out there on Google Maps and Google Earth.
The earlier than and after picture was generated or edited with Google AI, in line with Google’s SynthID watermark detector.
We are able to additionally see discrepancies within the roof of the constructing on the backside of the so-called “after” image in contrast with the unique satellite tv for pc picture. We are able to additionally see three automobiles parked in the very same areas in each the real satellite tv for pc imagery and the AI image – regardless of the photographs allegedly having been taken a 12 months aside.
We have now verified a number of movies exhibiting strikes on the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain on Saturday.
A senior Bahraini official informed BBC Information the bottom was struck on Saturday night by an Iranian drone that induced a serious hearth.
The drone impacted proper subsequent to the UK naval facility that adjoins the US space however there have been no casualties as the world had been evacuated, the official added.
