A viral video circulating on social media claims to depict Hurricane Helene's impact, featuring scenes of flooding and destruction. However, the video is not authentic. It incorporates footage from previous storms in various locations and years, some artificially altered with AI technology.
Thomas Chaves, left, and Vinny Almeida walk through floodwaters from Hurricane Helene in an attempt to reach Chaves's mother's house in the Shore Acres neighborhood Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The clips are from previous storms in different states and different years, contained artificial intelligence-altered clips and were shared online before Hurricane Helene .
Plenty of legitimate footage exists of the hurricane, which made landfall near Perry, Florida, as a Category 4 storm and caused extensive wind and flood damage across the Southeast. But this video is not authentic. Some of its clips are from previous storms in different states and different years. Some were altered with artificial intelligence or existed online before Hurricane Helene formed.
The Facebook video was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about ourto find where some of these clips started online. We found other clips circulating online several months before Helene made landfall.at a Florida mall as Hurricane Matthew tore through in 2016. And the twister at the back of the mall is computer-generated.
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