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A Southern California police department has withdrawn a public warning about a venomous snake on the loose after determining the purported snake sighting was actually a hoax fueled by an AI-generated image.

A snake that police believe to be a highly venomous viper not native to North America apparently is on the loose in Santa Ana.

Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say. The sighting of the extremely venomous viper, which has the longest fangs of any snake in the world, spurred the Santa Ana Police Department to issue a…