US President Donald Trump has claimed without providing any evidence that Iran uses artificial intelligence (AI) to spread disinformation about its wartime success.
“AI can be very dangerous, we have to be very careful with it,” Trump said to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, shortly after he made a post on his Truth Social platform where he accused Western media outlets without evidence of “close coordination” with Iran to spread AI-generated “fake news.”
He also claimed that images showing “250,000” Iranians at a rally to support new Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei were “totally AI generated” and that the event “never took place.”
People have been taking part in rallies en massed across Iran since war started to show support for the country in the face of the imposed unprovoked war and pledge allegiance to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
Many media organizations, including Western ones, have run news photos showing the rallies in the capital Tehran after Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was named leader.
The US and Israeli armed forces began their military aggression against Iran in late February by attacking targets across Tehran, killing former Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several senior Iranian military officials.
Since then, Iranian armed forces have swiftly and decisively retaliated against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drones against Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in region.
Iranian officials have stated that targeting US military bases in the region constitutes “legitimate self-defense.”
Referring to Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, they say that Iran has the legal right to defend itself against “acts of aggression” by the US or the Israeli regime.