AI fake claims to show Russian warehouse’s message to Ukraine drone operator

By Thomas Copeland, BBC Verify, and Fridon Kiria, BBC Monitoring This image claiming to show a message on the roof of a warehouse belonging to Wildberries’ competitor Ozon saying in Russian “This is not Wildberries. Fly past” has spread widely across social media and has been used by some news outlets - but it’s AI-generated. OpenAI’s online verification tool detected a SynthID digital watermark on the image. This tells us it was made using one of OpenAI’s tools. We’ve traced the image back to a