WorldViral Putin, Modi and Xi selfie at BRICS summit is AI-generated

A viral image purporting to show Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and other leaders posing together at the BRICS summit in New Delhi was generated by AI. A SynthID watermark points to OpenAI tools, while Brazil’s Lula and Turkey’s Erdogan, both shown, did not attend. Another fabricated selfie includes former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in 2024. Both images circulated widely, including on official embassy accounts.

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