An AI-generated video of a lion shopping in a Phalaborwa grocery store fools thousands of people. The realistic fake footage sparked digital literacy debates.

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Then, I started seeing AI-generated images; many contained obvious errors such as staircases to nowhere or sinks within sinks. Yet, commenters rarely pointed them out, instead admiring the aesthetic.