AI visuals of Imran Khan's purported public sighting mislead online

After thousands of supporters of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan marched in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to demand his release, social media posts shared AI-generated images apparently depicting his first public sighting in a long time. An analysis of the pictures found visual mistakes that indicate they are synthetic, a finding confirmed by OpenAI's detection tool.