As Hurricane Melissa battered the Caribbean this week, social media became awash with AI-generated content that blurs the line between reality and fiction.

Described by CBS News as “one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic,” Melissa reached Category 5 intensity as it made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. CNN reports that it has already caused seven deaths in the northern Caribbean, and is the most powerful storm to hit the basin since 2019’s Hurricane Dorian.

Amid a crisis, social media is flooded

Over the last few days, major social media platforms have been saturated with AI-generated videos—depicting a wide range of content supposedly related to the hurricane, from towering waves battering coastal towns to sharks gliding through floodwaters, destroyed airports, an

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