AI-generated fake Pentagon explosion causes confusion and market dip

False reports of an explosion at the Pentagon, accompanied by an apparently AI-generated image, spread on Twitter, sparking a brief dip in the stock market. The image was likely generated by artificial intelligence, experts said, in an example of potential for misuse of the increasingly popular and prevalent technology that they have been worried about. Many of the Twitter accounts that spread the hoax carried blue checks, which used to signify that the social network had verified the account is who or what it claims to be.