ZDF's 'Heute-Journal' faced backlash after airing AI-generated images in a report about ICE actions in New York, leading to an official apology for the inaccuracies.
The German news program 'Heute-Journal' aired a segment that included AI-generated images, depicting a harrowing scene of a woman being apprehended by police while her two young daughters clung to her. This video, however, did not accurately represent real events, prompting the network to retract the segment after its airing on Sunday night. Additionally, another video shown in the report was not generated by AI, but was pulled from a completely unrelated context, further distorting the integrity of the news segment.