{"id":6460,"date":"2025-11-04T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/hurricane-melissa-ai-birds\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:03:26","slug":"hurricane-melissa-ai-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/hurricane-melissa-ai-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds \u201cLarger Than Football Fields\u201d Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Caribbean just suffered one of the largest Hurricanes in recorded history. The scale of Melissa \u2014 which bombarded Jamaica, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic with sustained winds of 185 mph<\/a> \u2014 is unprecedented, which is makes it all the more bizarre to see fake AI-generated images of the storm go viral.<\/p>\n

While sharing doctored images in the aftermath of a disaster is a decade-long tradition<\/a> at this point, Yale\u2019s Climate Connections <\/em>blog<\/a> notes that generative AI is now making crisis misinformation worse than it\u2019s ever been<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the most flagrant pieces of disinfo surrounding Hurricane Melissa is an AI generated picture purporting to show the system from miles above the ground. The image shows an absolutely mammoth hurricane eye, punctuated by a flock of birds circling safely above.<\/p>\n

Yet as retired meteorologist and National Weather Service science and operations office Rich Grumm told Yale\u2019s CC<\/em>, the scale of the image simply doesn\u2019t work \u2014 Melissa\u2019s eye was reported to be around 10 miles wide<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the scale of the eye, these birds would be larger than football fields,\u201d Grumm told CC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And as former meteorology professor at Penn State University, Lee Grenci told the blog, \u201cthese birds would have to have been flying at altitudes well above the summit of Mount Everest\u201d for this image to be real.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe air temperature and air density are way too low for birds to fly,\u201d Grenci commented. Sure enough, as the fake image was going viral, a daring crew of hurricane hunters demonstrated the physical limits of weather observation flights when they punched through the storm wall<\/a> and into Melissa\u2019s eye, capturing some jaw dropping footage of the monster system.<\/p>\n

As far as the fake image goes, it seems to have kicked off on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a> at around 1am EST on October 28, but soon began making the rounds all over Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, TikTok<\/a>, and Meta\u2019s Threads<\/a>, earning tens of thousands of reactions. With dozens of various accounts posting the exact same image, it\u2019s likely the post spread with the help of a coordinated bot farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen the \u2018stadium effect\u2019 so pronounced and well-defined,\u201d one poster said on X, uploading the AI image alongside a real one. \u201cThis will be in meteorology textbooks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yale\u2019s CC <\/em>notes this isn\u2019t the only piece of AI-misinformation surrounding Hurricane Melissa. Another bit of viral slop appeared to show a Jamaican hospital<\/a> completely decimated by the storm, though fact checkers quickly identified a SynthID stamp<\/a>, an invisible watermark embedded into content made with Google\u2019s AI tools.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s impossible to tell the harm it might have caused \u2014 it\u2019s not hard to imagine scenarios where those seeking help may have been convinced an otherwise still-functioning hospital is completely destroyed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another example of the dangerous rise in AI-generated misinformation, and a reminder that this is one genie we won\u2019t be putting back into the bottle anytime soon.<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds \u201cLarger Than Football Fields\u201d Goes Viral<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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