Viper Image That Caused Alarm in California Was A.I.-Generated

New York Times - Sep 30, 2026

A Gaboon viper, a venomous snake native to equatorial regions of Africa, was supposedly photographed in a tree in Santa Ana, Calif. How could that be? Well, it turns out it wasn’t.

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