It was an arresting image and an irresistible story. A group of tough Thai police officers – five men and one woman – all wearing elaborate festival-style dresses, surrounding a drug dealer they had caught while undercover. The image, released by local police, was so compelling that it found its way on to the front page of the UK’s Daily Star, as well as in picture stories in the Telegraph, the Sun and the New York Post. The Sun wrote: “The burly crew of five men and one woman slipped into skin tight sequins and feathers for the covert mission in Thailand .” The Daily Star wrote: “The team of five blokes and one woman shared a snap of themselves in frilly dresses with the nicked suspect on Facebook.” There was just one problem: while the arrest was real, the image was an AI-generated fake.…