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PolitiFact: F-15 pilot rescue photo is 99.9 percent AI-generated

A social media image claiming to show US rescue of an Iranian-downed F-15 pilot reached over 1 million views before PolitiFact verified it was 99.9 percent Stable Diffusion XL-generated content.

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