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Gemini and Grok Reportedly Misidentified Authentic Minab School-Strike Graveyard Photo as Unrelated Disaster Imagery

AI Incident Database · article · Mar 17, 2026 · UTC

Gemini and Grok reportedly gave false provenance claims about an authentic photo of graves prepared for victims of the Minab school strike, identifying it as disaster imagery from Turkey or Indonesia. Researchers verified the photo's location through satellite imagery and related visual evidence.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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