LLMMedium
Gemini and Grok Reportedly Misidentified Authentic Minab School-Strike Graveyard Photo as Unrelated Disaster Imagery
- Occurred
- Mar 17, 2026
- Published
- Mar 17, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- xAI
Deployers
- xAI
Harmed parties
- Epistemic integrity
- Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School
- Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School community
- Iranian schoolchildren
- Educational communities
- Minab school-strike victims and families
- Minab Hermud Cemetery
- Human rights investigators
- Fact-checkers
- Open-source investigators
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: LLMs hallucinated false provenance for an authentic photo, causing misinformation about a sensitive event.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8