Venezuela claims that Trump’s strike video against alleged drug addicts is AI

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his government had made a “kinetic strike” against alleged Venezuela drug smugglers in a boat traveling in the Caribbean. The strike killed 11 people, according to Trump, and he claims to be all gang members.

None of these points has been confirmed and drug addict is not a capital offense, which makes Trump strike almost certainly illegal under international law. But Venezuela had a fairly interesting answer. A Minister of the Government claims that the video of the attack is probably false, and he asked Google the Gemini for his opinion.

President Trump published a video of the strike on his social media platform, Truth Social, and the Ministry of Defense published Tuesday a video of the strike at X.

. @Potus “Earlier this morning, on my orders, the American military forces led a kinetic strike against the narcoterrorists of Tren of Aragua identified positively in the area of ​​responsibility of Southcom. ADD is an designated foreign terrorist organization, operating under the control of … pic.twitter.com/aaykob9rhb

– DOD RAPID Response (@Dodespons) September 2, 2025

Venezuela asked Gemini

Freddy ñáñez, the Minister of Communications and Information in Venezuela, tweeted Tuesday that “It seems that Marco Rubio continues to lie to its president: after putting it in a dead end, he now gives it as “proof” a video with AI (so proved). “”

Ñáñez then shared a series of tweets that seem to be copied from Gemini after asking the AI ​​chatbot if the video of the American government was real.

“According to the video provided, it is very likely that it was created using artificial intelligence (IA),” wrote the manager on X, seeming parrot what Gemini told him. “Although I cannot confirm with certainty the exact tools used, several elements suggest that it has been generated by AI,” continues the tweet, listing several things.

The government official listed the reasons for Gemini’s reasons to insist that the video was probably an AI, according to an English translation:

• The video shows a ship that is attacked and then explodes in a way that looks like a simplified animation, almost like a cartoon, rather than a realistic representation of an explosion. It contains a lack of realistic details, something in common in the videos generated by the AI
• Water, in particular, seems very stylized and unnatural. The video content seems to be made up of different elements, including the text “not classified” and a watermark of unknown origin. These elements are common in the content generated by AI.
• This type of video, often known as Deepfake video or generated in AI, becomes more and more common. It can be used for various purposes, such as entertainment, disinformation or artistic expression.
• Enough already, Marco Rubio, to encourage war and try to bloody the hands of President Donald Trump

The accusations that the video could be an AI is particularly funny, given Trump’s recent comments on the blame of AI for things. It was yesterday that Trump said he should blame the AI ​​when “something is really bad.”

Trump answered questions about whether strange images outside the White House were real. Someone was captured during the weekend throwing things through a White House window. A government spokesperson confirmed to Time Magazine that it was a real video, but almost immediately, Trump contradicts the claims of his own staff according to which he was just a worker with a routine interview.

Trump is very proud of the strike

Trump’s post announcing the strike was in his typically disadvantaged style, making grandiose and not proven affirmations when signing with “Thank you for your attention to this case”, although this time he included 11 exclamation points.

“Earlier this morning, on my orders, the American military forces led a kinetic strike against the narcoterrorists of Tren of Aragua identified positively in the area of ​​responsibility of Southcom,” Trump wrote on Tuesday.

“ADD is an designated foreign terrorist organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking and acts of violence and terror across the United States and the Western hemisphere,” said the president.

“The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters carrying illegal drugs, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No American forces was injured in this strike. Come up.

What do the stupid robots say?

As often happens, the people of X asked the AI ​​Chatbot Grok to check if the images were real. And it’s just as reliable as Gemini or any other AI detection tool. That is to say, not very reliable.

“During the review, the video shows visual inconsistencies such as stylized explosions and the effects of unnatural water, suggesting the generation of AI,” grok answered a user.

“Venezuelan officials said it was false, while American reports confirm that a strike occurred, but without official release of the DOD images. I am uncertain without primary verification,” continued the chatbot.

Grok cannot tell you if the images are AI because she knows nothing and does not have the tools to determine if something is generated by AI, as France 24 mentioned it while trying to decipher the video. But as the United States and Venezuela exchange beards on what seems to be a quivering war in the Western hemisphere, we will probably see much more.