AI-Generated Image of Aamir Khan Falsely Shared as Poster of His New Film

The artist created this image as a part of their Oppenheimer series, reimagining Indian actors as the film's cast.

This image is not real or related to a new film announcement. 

(Source: Altered by The Quint)

Social media users are sharing an image of actor Aamir Khan dressed in a defence uniform claiming that it is an announcement of his new film – a biopic on Lala Amarnath, directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

An archive of the post can be found here. 

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot) 

(Archives of similar claims can be found here, here and here.)

What is the truth?: The viral image of Aamir Khan is created using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool.

• It has been created by an artist named, with the username "@wild.trance" on Instagram for their series "Unfathomable Fusion: The Oppenheimer Project" with an Indian cast.

How did we find out?: We ran the image on AI-detection websites like Hugging Face and AI or Not and found the following.

• Hugging Face detected the image as AI-generated with 75 percent.

• AI or not declared the image as AI-generated.

The website detected the image with 75% as artificial and 25% human. 

AI or not declared the following result. 

• We zoomed into the viral image and found a name stamp at the bottom that read @wild.trance.

Here is a close-up of the image. 

(Source: Altered by The Quint) 

• We searched this tag on Instagram and came across the profile this AI artist and found the viral image on their profile.

• This image of Aamir Khan had been created in their series to showcase Oppenheimer characters with an Indian cast where Aamir Khan was created in Leslie Groves role.

• On slide 7 of the post, the image of Aamir Khan can be found.

• The Quint has reached out to the artist for their inputs and the story will be updated as and when we receive a response.

Conclusion: The viral image is not related to the announcement of Khan's new film, rather, it is an AI-generated image created by an Instagram account called @wild.trance.

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