When the Deepfake Detector Calls the Real Man Fake

A head of state releasing a video to prove his own existence is a sentence that should not parse in any normal political moment. That it does parse — and that the video was then labeled synthetic by an AI chatbot — is the shape of the problem. Netanyahu's proof-of-life footage, released to counter a conspiracy theory built on alleged six-finger hand geometry in earlier images ^[5], did not resolve the question it was meant to answer. Grok called it a deepfake . The detection tool that Musk's platform implicitly…