Katie Bo Lillis

"Other fake news media outlets to follow." Trump's anger at the press was probably fed today by three scoops.

Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen of CNN reported that this spring, the US military set out to intercept a Chinese ship in the Middle East after an intelligence report said it was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program.

After preparing to board the ship and sending up planes, officials realized that the report had been generated by AI.

It was, a source told the reporters, entirely false, but it almost started a war.

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This is by Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen at CNN.

Someone at the military was looking at the signal intelligence and running it through a chat bot and was looking at a ship that was passing through somewhere in the contested area where the war is going on right now in Iran.

And the chatbot falsely reported that it was a Chinese ship that it might be carrying nuclear material.