I have found this image and I need your help!
Where did I get this image?
Answer to this question is actually kinda complicated.
Basically, for past two months I was collecting torrent and magnet links and other P2P filesharing links from all around the internet, that contained 9/11 related keywords, and tried to download as many files possible. Obviously, most of the links were dead, but there were also many that I was slowly able to download. In total I was able to get around 950 GB of files of many many formats.
And because I knew, this process will take more then one day, I decided to setup my own VPS (Virtual Private Server), and automate the whole process. First, the server was scraping for torrents, magnets, and other file links that contained at least one of the keywords I have provided. Everytime, when the server found something, It was added to download list, and server was constantly trying to fetch/download the files.
Now to the part where I kinda messed up. If the file was downloaded, It was automatically sorted into folders by the format, so it was easier for me to browse through the files. What i didn’t realize was, that I had no system to store where the file came from. So now I have hundreds of gigabytes of files, from unknown sources, including the image.
Only thing i know is, that it came from magnet link, but when I started the scraping process again, I was not able to find it again.
Did I find anything else?
Lot of already seen and known footage, Lots and lots of conspiracy videos/images, hours of TV broadcast from the day, Lot of 9/11 documentaries, investigation files, some gore and ton of unrelated fake stuff.
What I know about the image so far?
First question I asked myself was if it’s actually 9/11 related image, and where it was shot. I was able to match it with some plaza photos online.
So it was taken on plaza facing the WTC 4 building.
Second question was obviously when it was taken. The debris on ground says it must’ve been taken after 8:46 AM when the first plane crashed. But other photos online show people close to the WTC 4 even after the impact, so was this after the second plane hit, and plaza was closed to public? or was it before the people came there?
Did I find matching photo online?
Google images found 0 matches, and TinEye found 0 matches.
Is it fake image/AI generated/photoshopped?
This was most important for me. Is it fake? I didn’t know the date of the image creation, because the image is missing any EXIF metadata. The image is also very low quality, so it’s kinda hard to see any detail.
So I decided to upload it to multiple fake image/ai generation detectors to see what they say.
fakeimagedetector.com says it looks like computer generated or modified image based on ELA analysis.
sightengine.com says it’s very unlikely to be AI generated or deepfaked.
imageamigo.com says its unlikely been modified.
So some of the tools say it may have been modified, some also say it was not.
Please if you know more about this image, let me know!