"The image shows an absolutely mammoth hurricane eye, punctuated by a flock of birds circling safely above. Yet as retired meteorologist and National Weather Service science and operations office Rich Grumm told Yale's CC, the scale of the image simply doesn't work - Melissa's eye was reported to be around 10 miles wide. "Based on the scale of the eye, these birds would be larger than football fields," Grumm told CC."
""these birds would have to have been flying at altitudes well above the summit of Mount Everest" for this image to be real. "The air temperature and air density are way too low for birds to fly," Grenci commented. Sure enough, as the fake image was going viral, a daring crew of hurricane hunters demonstrated the physical limits of weather observation flights when they punched through the storm wall and into Melissa's eye, capturing some jaw dropping footage of the monster system."
The Caribbean suffered Hurricane Melissa with sustained winds of 185 mph, impacting Jamaica, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and marking one of the largest storms on record. Generative AI produced a fake image that showed an enormous hurricane eye with a flock of birds, a portrayal that is physically impossible given Melissa's reported eye diameter of about 10 miles. The pictured birds would be larger than football fields or would have to fly above Mount Everest where air density is insufficient for avian flight. The fake image spread widely across X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads while hurricane hunters entered the actual eye and captured footage.
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