India, March 13 -- Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new Supreme Leader, has an official social media profile now. However, the photo used has reportedly been 'manipulated with AI'.

Khamenei has been chosen as Iran's new Supreme Leader, after his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint US-Israel strikes on Tehran.

Shayan Sardarizadeh of BBC Verify shared on X "This image of Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, which has been widely published by Iranian media today and now appears on his new X account, appears to have been manipulated with AI." The journalist, who among other things, specializes in AI, and disinformation, added "Google's SynthID finds watermarks in it that indicate it has been edited using Google AI."

He further...