{"id":194302,"date":"2026-03-09T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/storm-damage-pictures-too-crazy-to-believe-how-to-know-when-its-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:55:10","slug":"storm-damage-pictures-too-crazy-to-believe-how-to-know-when-its-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/storm-damage-pictures-too-crazy-to-believe-how-to-know-when-its-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm damage pictures too crazy to believe? How to know when it&#8217;s AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/local\/storm-damage-pictures-how-to-know-when-its-ai\/69-1d100003-aaee-4993-8f3c-b112248381b2\">Storm damage pictures too crazy to believe? How to know when it&#8217;s AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/local\/storm-damage-pictures-how-to-know-when-its-ai\/69-1d100003-aaee-4993-8f3c-b112248381b2\">https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/local\/storm-damage-pictures-how-to-know-when-its-ai\/69-1d100003-aaee-4993-8f3c-b112248381b2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 18:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wzzm13.com\">www.wzzm13.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) generated content is pervasive on social media, raising concerns about the authenticity of images shared online.<\/li>\n<li>In the event of severe weather, such as the tornadoes in West Michigan that killed four people, images of storm damage often circulate, but not all of them may be genuine.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Len O&#8217;Kelly, Director of Grand Valley State University&#8217;s School of Communications, advises caution when consuming content from digital devices and platforms.<\/li>\n<li>One critical example shared by O&#8217;Kelly showed a photo of the aftermath of a tornado featuring elements (like leaves on trees and boats) that do not correspond to the time of year the storm occurred.<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Kelly highlights the need for skepticism and a habit of questioning and verifying the authenticity of information before consumption and sharing.<\/li>\n<li>He expresses concern that AI content may desensitize people to real emergencies and could encourage dangerous behavior in storm chasing.<\/li>\n<li>To combat misinformation, O&#8217;Kelly recommends doing reverse searches and thinking critically about the information rather than accepting it at face value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm damage pictures too crazy to believe? How to know when it&#8217;s AI https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/local\/storm-damage-pictures-how-to-know-when-its-ai\/69-1d100003-aaee-4993-8f3c-b112248381b2 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wzzm13.com\/assets\/WZZM\/images\/e8520552-801b-444c-ad43-0990183b34d6\/20260309T212128\/e8520552-801b-444c-ad43-0990183b34d6_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-194302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194304,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194302\/revisions\/194304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}