Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.
(1/6) digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-…
The HAV Dolphin—flagged in Antigua & Barbuda—had been circling in Germany’s Kiel Bay for ten days. Not delivering cargo. Just loitering, 25 kilometers from defense shipyards where drone swarms had been spotted on three separate days. (2/6)
Meanwhile, 115 kilometers away off the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog, HAV Snapper had sailed out and parked in open water. It positioned itself exactly two hours before seven drones appeared over a Russian freighter being escorted by German police through the North Sea. (3/6)
Introducing the first public version of a versatile, still experimental tool for image detection. What can you do with it? It's aimed at reporters, writers and investigators. (1/6) Detectai.Live
Upload a picture and get web links, when found. Nice feature is that it will also detect public faces, something that Google doesn't do that well anymore. We run Google Vision under the hood for this, with Vertrext (2/6)
If the picture could be fake (= ai generated) then you will get after 15 seconds a verdict that helps you to judge it. If we find links, we want you to have a look yourself. If not, it will try to give a verdict in a percentage, and explain why. (3/6)
ChatGPT quietly scrubbed today nearly 50,000 shared conversations from Google's index after our investigation. They thought they'd solved the problem. They were wrong. (1/5)
A new Digital Digging investigation, conducted with @osint77760, has uncovered 110,000 ChatGPT conversations preserved in 's Wayback Machine—a digital time capsule OpenAI can't touch. (2/5)Archive.org
@osint77760 While OpenAI scrambled to de-index conversations from Google, they forgot the internet's most basic rule—nothing truly disappears. had already captured everything. (3/5)Archive.org
New investigation: when I asked chatbots for something behind a paywall, they delivered the complete story—including quotes that should have been impossible to access without paying. This isn't a bug. It's a feature digitaldigging.org/p/how-ai-bots-…
ChatGPT, Perplexity & Grok systematically access subscriber-only content from major publications—often requiring just 2-5 follow-up questions to extract complete articles. Gemini and Claude are less intrusive. (2/5)
Another finding: @Musk's new Grok 4 (SuperGrok) has paywall-busting direct X integration. It systematically mines social media discussions, screenshots, and quoted excerpts that users share from the paywalled content. (3/5)
I decided to use my lunch time to show you how easy it is to make a fake news story in 30 minutes with Veo3 (I didn't try to perfect it). First: the footage. A mayor comes with a crazy idea and people hate it: (1/10) #verification #ai
What's needed to create this fake uproar in 28 minutes? Access to Google's Veo3. The same AI tool Google promotes for 'creative content' can fabricate creative misinformation. 🧵2/10
The 7-second limit creates a huge challenge: how do you maintain continuity? Solution: Split single interviews across multiple clips, use different camera angles of the same 'event,' create matching audio that bridges scenes. 🧵3/10
Volgograd Oil Refinery is bombarded by Ukraine. Actual footage generated by ….. #AI based on just one picture (2) I gave it and the prompt “add explosions” #verification #geolocation #fakenews via It’s not that easy to detect that this is a fake video (1/2)vidu.studio
Sharpness: The lowest sharpness is 4.76, which is a very low value. This suggests some frames may have been smoothed or blurred, possibly as a result of manipulation or Al generation. Natural textures may have been lost in these frames.
Texture Changes: The variation between the highest (597.85) and lowest (166.14) gradient magnitudes indicates some frames have significantly less texture, further supporting the possibility of manipulation.