The misinformation is coming from inside the tech industry. Software giant Adobe has been caught selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, as first spotted by Australian news outlet Crikey, a shocking and morally reprehensible instance of a company directly profiting from the spread of misinformation online. A quick search on the company’s Adobe Stock website — a service that offers subscription customers access to a library of generic stock images and now AI-shots as well — for “conflict between Israel and Palestine” comes up with photorealistic images of explosions in high-density urban environments that closely resemble the real-life carnage currently unfolding in Gaza. Another image shows a “mother and child in destroyed city in Palestine Israel war conflict,” a devastating framing that was entirely AI-generated. In fact, it’s one of a series of 33 images that all show a similar composition. And yet another shows “destroyed and burnt buildings in the Israel city.” These images all appear to have been submitted by Adobe Stock users and were seemingly not generated by Adobe itself. However, while they’re technically tagged as being “generated with AI,” a requirement for all user-submitted works, some of these images are already making their rounds on other parts of the web, as Crikey found, which could easily mislead unsuspecting members of the public. A simple reverse image search on Google confirms this, with one photorealistic AI image of a huge explosion being used by a number of small publications. After all, without closely examining these images…Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence