Russian Bots Are Spreading an AI-Generated Photo About the “Punishment” of a Schoolgirl for Her Father Being a “Draft Dodger”
Pro-Russian Telegram channels and public pages are actively spreading a photo allegedly showing that, in one of the schools in Kryvyi Rih, a teacher made a schoolgirl sit at a desk with a sign reading: “I will sit at this desk until my dad returns from AWOL” (unauthorized absence from a military unit). The post is presented as “proof” that Ukrainian schools punish children for having parents who are “draft dodgers”.
This fake was debunked by analysts from the StopFake project.
No Ukrainian media outlet, no local Telegram channel in Kryvyi Rih, and no official source has reported such an incident. Instead, the image is being widely circulated by accounts displaying signs of bot activity, in multiple languages at once: English, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Vietnamese, and others.
The photo itself was generated by artificial intelligence. This is confirmed by three independent services:
- Decopy AI: probability that the image was AI-generated – 98%. The font on the sign is overly uniform and professional, and the cartoonish mice contrast with the otherwise realistic photo.
- WasItAI: “We are confident that the image, or a significant part of it, was created by artificial intelligence”.
- Reversely: probability of AI generation – 84%.
The original sources of the “news” were typical propaganda Telegram channels that regularly post fabrications and conspiracy theories. In other words, this is a classic AI-generated fake, created in a matter of minutes and widely disseminated to fuel yet another wave of mockery and hatred.
