On Jan. 29, Netflix announced it had greenlit a reboot of "Little House on the Prairie." Several social media posts have shared an image appearing to show the ethnically diverse cast of the reboot. The photo is fake. The image is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the cast of the reboot has not yet been announced.
Over the past couple weeks on X, more than 100 accounts that looks like a screenshot of a Facebook post by People magazine, with the caption “Fans are heading back to the little house on the prairie!â€Â
The image shows what looks like a link to a People article about the reboot and features a photo of a family that includes a Black man, a white woman and three children appearing to be of East Asian descent.Ìý
Posts using the image appear to be decrying the ethnic makeup of the family. Some used racist or otherwise denigrating language in their captions.Ìý
One X user “America was always multicultural†in quotation marks. The post had around 9,600 likes, almost 900 shares and 326,000 views at the time of publication.Ìý
The image also appeared in posts on and .Ìý
Rating: Fake image
The image of the family was generated using artificial intelligence.Ìý
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø ran the image through . The tool said the image is likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.
AI detection tools are not 100 per cent accurate and can sometimes provide false-positive results.
The image in the screenshot bears some hallmarks of AI-generated images, most notably the man’s hand, which does not appear real – the pinky finger is shorter than it would normally be, and the other fingers appear to meld together.Ìý
According to , AI image generators often struggle with fingers.Ìý
The Netflix adaptation of "Little House of the Prairie," based on the book series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, does not have a cast announced yet.
People magazine did post on on Jan. 30 about the reboot. However, those posts feature images of the original cast. One post has the same caption and link shown in the screenshot.Ìý
X users added community notes, X's crowdsourced fact-checking program, to the posts, saying the image is AI-generated and does not feature the cast of the coming show.
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