How AI Is Has Turned Propaganda Into a Potent Weapon

The craziest clips from Iranian bombing attacks did not capture Pentagon’s camera or CNN crew. They were cooked by Google’s AI video manufacturer.

After the Iranian rocket bargain against Israel earlier in the week, false AI videos began to spread like a nasty rumor, showing Airport Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion reportedly dandied.

The scenes were very realistic, and although the strikes were real, the Videos Virals on the whole internet were not, according to forensic companies.

This is a state of war in 2025, where Ai -genered deep, chatbot generated lies and video games used to manipulate public perceptions with unprecedented Frequency and penetration at social media.

While the world broke through the Iranian response on Sunday after being attacked by key Iranian nuclear places, joining Israel in the most significant Western military action against the Islamic Republic of his 1979 revolution, millions of people addressed the social media for updates.

Instead of getting the truth, many were trapped in a new type of campaign for disinformation.

Iranian tictal campaigns noticed in the days immediately after the Israeli strikes in Iran 2025 deployed five major content categories generated by AI.

One video that creates a round shows a regular Israeli neighborhood suddenly transformed into a war zone, in format before and after.

Another series of fake shows Tel Aviva main airport hitting rockets.

One clip contains El Al Israel Airlines aircraft that is preoccupied with a flame. Although completely computer generated, it is still realistic enough to cheat on people who are not technical.

Sophistication is stunning, reflecting a huge jump in quality video generators who have shown in recent months, with Kling 2.1 masterSeeds and Google Veli3 Generation of real scenes with a picture to a video possibilities – which is why the model creates a video based on the actual actual picture instead of creating scenes from scratch.

Even open code software such as WAN 2.1, popular with hobbies, uses accessories that create super realistic video and improve quality, while bypassing content restrictions imposed by large technological companies.

These political clips are gathering millions of views on Tiktok, while Instagram, Facebook and X are still promoting them non -stop.

For example, a video has been posted today showing an exaggeration of Iranian attacks on American bases over 3 million times on x while a photo Portraits of Candance Owens and Tucker Carlson – journalists who have collected more than 371,000 views against Trump’s involvement in the war – as Muslims in three days. Telegram channels pump these fakes and to jump Faster than platforms can exclude them.

Origin of deception

But who creates all these things?

Partisans on both sides, of course, and the probable agents of each country. The propaganda war extends far beyond the Middle East.

The “Justice” network from Russia consists of assistants, including Chatgpt-4 and Metav Chatbot, turning them into Kremlin mouths.

Newsguard, a project dedicated to exposure to disinformation in US discourse, assessment The annual network publishing rate is justice at least 3.6 million propulsion articles.

Last year, the net produced 3.6 million pieces in 49 countries, using 150 web addresses in multiple languages.

According to the study, the Russian network uses a comprehensive infiltration strategy in ARBOT training and deliberate publication of false claims.

Result? Every major chatbot – although the study does not name names – Parko is justice propaganda.

The Middle East campaigns show that they are up to science, adjusting the content of the tongue.

“The content of Arabic language and Farsi often promotes regional solidarity and anti-Israelish feelings; Videos in Hebrew are focused on psychological pressure in Israel,” said the Israeli International Institute of Counter-Terrorism (ICT) UA report.

A different propaganda tactic uses AI content to ridicule Israeli officials, while the Iranian top priest looks like a hero.

These videos, which are obviously generated and not intended to be realistic, often display Ayatollah scenes, but Khamenei, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, showing scenarios in which Khamenei symbolically humiliates or dominates one or both.

Other Deepfakes combine false videos with false voices to improve different political programs.

One videowhich has collected more than 18 million views in the week, contains realistic shots of Iranian military parade with hundreds of rockets and the voice of Khamenei that threatened America with retaliation.

Iranian state media jumped in. Iranian TV performed old shots with a fire from Chile and transferred them while the Israeli cities were burning.

Other accounts shown as news used fake AI videos about Iran that mobilized their missiles.

On the other hand, Israel decided to ban the media to control the geopolitical narrative, encouraging even more misinformation and “dehumanization” according to experts.

Although Israel focuses on the use of AI for different purposes – military strategies Instead of political propaganda and cases of actors used by generative AI for these purposes, mocking current and past ayatols and spreading their political messages through the video that are generated as well as creation AI bots networks spread content on social media.

The synthetic person’s game is the next level. These are not just false profile images – we talk about it Complete artificial identity with life speech, movement and expressions.

There are already tools that use advanced technology to transform one photo and audio clips into hyperrealistic videos with synthetic persons.

The virtual influencer market, KBV research Data show, they could reach $ 37.8 billion by 2030, which means that your favorite personality is social media, that video of your political leader that says something compromising or that very realistic news shows scenes from a devastating attack may not even exist.

With a generative AI, the battlefield spread beyond the borders and a bunker to every smartphone, every social feed and every conversation.

If even the president of the most powerful nation in the world can use this technology without consequences, it is easy to see that in this new war we are all fighters and we are all victims.

Edited Sebastian Sinclair and Josh Quttner