An image purportedly showing Jharkhand's police seizing cash and gold from a truck is being shared on social media platforms.
(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)
Is this true?: The claim is false as the image is AI-generated.
How did we find out?: At first, we noticed a few discrepancies in the image.
Discrepancies in the form of people's facial expressions in the foreground not vividly visible, distorted bodies and unknown currency were in the viral image.
We, then, ran the image on AI-detection websites such as Hive and TrueMedia.
Following are the results: Hive concluded that the image was 99.9% generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
TrueMedia: It detected "substantial evidence of manipulation." It concluded it was highly suspicious of being AI-generated.
Conclusion: This image is generated using Artificial Intelligence.
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