As Iran and Israel fought, people turned to AI for facts. They didn’t find many

An AI-generated image of a fighter plane shot down in Iran that was published on a parody account on X. Users repeatedly asked the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, if the image was real. @hehe_samir/Annotation by NPR

@hehe_samir/Annotation by NPR

In the first days after Israel’s surprise airstrikes on Iran, a video began circulating on X. A newscast, narrated in Azeri, shows drone footage of a bombed-out airport. The video has received almost 7 million views on X.

Hundreds of users tagged X’s integrated AI bot Grok to ask: Is this real?

It’s not — the video was created with generative

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