The video spread at a velocity only social media can generate. Missiles rained down on the USS Abraham Lincoln, blasting fighter jets into the sea, the vessel breaking apart in a dramatic fireball — shared millions of times before anyone thought to ask whether the carrier was still sailing.
It was. Analysis using the AI detection tool Hive showed roughly 99.9% of the content contained AI-generated elements. U.S. Central Command was blunt: “The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close.”
The dead ships keep sailing.
One of the big questions in this conflict is who is steering the story? What’s real and what’s artificial? Welcome to the first real war fought simultaneously on the ground and in competing digital realities.
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