An expert on generative AI says the image is a fabrication. The chair of the group that maintains the sign says it was not affected by the fires.

Images and videos purporting to show the historic Hollywood sign engulfed in flames are spreading across X and other social media platforms as wildfires rage through Los Angeles, California. But the visuals are fakes,

The sign is secure,” a spokesperson for Hollywood Sign Trust, the nonprofit that maintains and secures the sign, told The Dispatch Fact