Two people were on board a Kamaka Air Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft when it crashed shortly after take off from Honolulu International Airport at 3 p.m. HST on Tuesday. The aircraft hit a vacant, state-owned building on Aolele Street, just outside the airport, that is due for demolition. There have been no reports of any ground injuries.

Now, several of the viral videos surfacing on TikTok and X over the past week are capitalizing on the panic; they also appear to exhibit the hallmark calling cards of generative AI manipulation. Almost none of the videos reviewed by Popular Science had any official label or disclosure from social media platforms warning users about possible digital editing.