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Grok and Google Lens AI overviews claim fake imagery shows Huntingdon train attack [View all]
https://fullfact.org/crime/grok-google-lens-ai-imagery-train-attack/Grok and Google Lens AI overviews claim fake imagery shows Huntingdon train attack
5 November 2025
Grok and Google Lens AI overviews have been claiming that fake imagery shows the Huntingdon train attack last Saturday.
Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s start-up xAI, told users one AI-generated image of an injured man lying in a carriage was not AI-generated, and said it “appears to be a genuine photo”. An AI overview from the picture-searching tool Google Lens claimed without evidence that the same image was a “still from a BBC news report”, and linked to an article from the organisation about the Huntingdon attack.
Google Lens’s AI overview also linked a video of a confrontation on a train carriage to Saturday’s attack, even though it is not real footage of the incident and was almost certainly generated with AI.
It comes after Full Fact revealed in August that Google Lens AI overviews had given users false and misleading information about images being shared widely on social media. We’ve also previously written about Grok misidentifying a viral video.
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5 November 2025
Grok and Google Lens AI overviews have been claiming that fake imagery shows the Huntingdon train attack last Saturday.
Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s start-up xAI, told users one AI-generated image of an injured man lying in a carriage was not AI-generated, and said it “appears to be a genuine photo”. An AI overview from the picture-searching tool Google Lens claimed without evidence that the same image was a “still from a BBC news report”, and linked to an article from the organisation about the Huntingdon attack.
Google Lens’s AI overview also linked a video of a confrontation on a train carriage to Saturday’s attack, even though it is not real footage of the incident and was almost certainly generated with AI.
It comes after Full Fact revealed in August that Google Lens AI overviews had given users false and misleading information about images being shared widely on social media. We’ve also previously written about Grok misidentifying a viral video.
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