Image made with AI misleads about purported N. Korean contamination of S. Korean rivers

After an online media outlet reported that Pyongyang was secretly discharging uranium wastewater into rivers flowing into South Korea, an image identified by Google as having been made with AI was used in posts falsely claiming it showed satellite imagery of the contamination. The image does not match satellite imagery of the purported site of the pollution, and a spokesperson for Seoul’s environment ministry said there was “no possibility” that any alleged North Korean discharge would contamina