Fact-Check: AI-Generated Visual Of Massive Protest in Manipur Shared as Real

This visual is created using Artificial Intelligence. The creator has rightfully mentioned it in the caption.

Fact-Check: Visuals have been created using AI.

(Source: The Quint) 

A visual showing several people on the streets showing solidarity with Manipur is being shared as a real incident.

• Those sharing wrote, "Manipur status is unattainable."

An archive of the post can be found here. 

(Source: X/Screenshot) 

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

Is this true?: This visual is created using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

What we found: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across the same clip on an Instagram page called, '@paribhraman, which was uploaded on 1 February.

• The user mentioned that the images used were created using AI.

An archive of the post can be found here.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot) 

• We have reached out to the user for their inputs and the story will be updated once the response is received.

We checked the viral clip on AI-detection websites and the results are below.

Contrails.AI - We, then, checked the video with the help of Contrails.AI - a Bengaluru-based AI startup working on detecting AI-generated content.

• Their report concluded that the video frames were a 'sequence of Al-Generated static frames' and the audio was also manipulated, but did not necessarily use AI.

Report's summary by Contrails.AI

(Source: Contrails.AI) 

Similarly, we also ran the visual on Hive Moderation which concluded that the visual was 99.9% generated using AI.

Here are the results given by Hive Moderation.

(Source: Hive Moderation/Screenshot) 

Conclusion: The visual is generated using AI and is being falsely shared as real.

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