Fabricated AI image of Buddhist monk's protest misleads users in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court reinstated a prison sentence for hardline Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara, who had received a presidential pardon in 2019, triggering protests by some Buddhist clergy after he appeared in court wearing prison uniform in a separate case. But an image purportedly showing monks marching in protest to Colombo contains visual anomalies and detection tools flagged that it was AI-generated.