Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 13 posted a video in which he talked about his country’s attacks on Iran. Social media users claimed that the video appeared to show Netanyahu having six fingers on his right hand. This, they said, was as a sign that artificial intelligence had been used to create the video. Older versions of AI tools sometimes showed human figures with extra fingers or limbs.
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The purportedly inaccurate image was cited to raise questions about Netanyahu’s whereabouts and sparked rumours that he had been assassinated.
Netanyahu does not have six fingers. The extra digit that seemed to appear in the images being circulated was an optical illusion – his skin, at that angle, looked like an additional finger. The next day, the Israeli prime minister’s office refuted the claims, stating that Netanyahu was alright.
Perhaps because it was felt that the denial was insufficient, Netanyahu on March 15 posted a proof-of-life video showing him in a café in Jerusalem. The café also shared images of the visit.
Addressing the claims about his death, Netanyahu said in the video that he was “dying for coffee”. He then showed his hands, asking: “Do you want to count my fingers?”
But social media users refused to believe that this video was genuine. They claimed that it too had been generated using...