Summary
An AI-generated image circulated on social media after the Aug. 12 death of 32-year-old Salanda Thermitus in Haiti, depicting a heavily pregnant woman beside an ambulance apparently stuck in deep mud while men attempted to free it. Thermitus’s family and the ambulance driver said she was about three months pregnant, became ill from a condition unrelated to pregnancy, and died after the vehicle briefly stopped to repair a flat tire; the driver said the tire was fixed within minutes and no medical professional accompanied the trip. The fabricated image added false details about her pregnancy and the scene, which the article says obscured questions about emergency medical resources and ambulance conditions in the region.