The image and phrase that went viral after a recent Israeli attack have been claimed by two Malaysian artists
An image generated by artificial intelligence with the caption “All eyes on Rafah”, referring to the Israeli bombing of the humanitarian zone of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, has made headlines in recent days. This is because this digital piece, already shared by more than 44 million people on Instagram, they had no credit and there were only suspicions that they were from Malaysia. Now, two Malaysian artists are claiming credit for him.
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In the image, several tents stretching into the desert form the letters of the message, in the form of a mention of the thousands of Palestinians who fled to Rafah due to the conflict between the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and the Israeli government. military campaign.
Even without knowing exactly when and where this image appeared, millions of Instagram accounts began to make it viral, including on the profiles of models Bella and Gigi Hadid, of Palestinian origin; and the French footballer Ousmane Dembelé.
“Eyes on Rafah” was also widely shared on other social networks, especially on X, where 27.5 million messages were published in three days.
Who is behind this message?
After all the fuss over the image, two Malaysians have started to claim credit for the digital illustration created using artificial intelligence, according to the NPR website. The first is a 39-year-old science teacher, Zila Abka, who in February created the first version by playing with the Image Creator tool, from Microsoft.
A pro-Palestinian activist, he wanted to create a political artwork depicting those taking refuge in camps in the city of Rafah, Gaza. Because the phrase “All eyes on Rafah” had already become popular, Abka said he wrote a tip for the artificial intelligence tool to create an image with those words above white tents amid dense rows of other camps.
She liked and shared the post on February 14, in the group Facebook Promters Malaya, which brings together around 250 thousand people, passionate about art generated by artificial intelligence. After that Abka had even forgotten about the matter. But last week, when he saw something very similar spread rapidly on Instagram, he began analyzing those shares.
This is because the image has been altered and the watermarks that identified it as the creator have disappeared. Additionally, it has been expanded to include snow-capped mountains looming over the tents. The origin of this new version is Amirul Shah’s account on the X social network.
He is a university student and photographer in Malaysia and is responsible for recreating the image of Abka. The two do not know each other and have never communicated, and Abka, although initially offended that someone had washed her image and removed her name from it, later admitted that the photos generated by artificial intelligence “do not really belong to Nobody”; and that, in the end, viralization achieved the objective of the initial message.
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