Description: Gemini and Grok reportedly gave false provenance claims about an authentic photo of graves prepared for victims of the Minab school strike, identifying it as disaster imagery from Turkey or Indonesia. Researchers verified the photo's location through satellite imagery and related visual evidence.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google , xAI , Gemini and Grok developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Epistemic integrity , Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School , Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School community , Iranian schoolchildren , Educational communities , Minab school-strike victims and families , Minab Hermud Cemetery , Human rights investigators , Fact-checkers and Open-source investigators.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1493
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-03-17
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters of people standing gathered around them. Dozens more are marked out on the ground in front: small chalk rect…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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