This Video of a Human Playing Basketball With a Robot Is Digitally Altered

We found that the viral video has been digitally altered to replace the human with a robot.

A video of a person playing basketball with a robot is being shared on the internet with users claiming that it shows a real incident.

What have users said?: Those sharing the video have uploaded with a caption that said, "How much longer until robots can play sports better than a human?."

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

What is the truth?: The video has been digitally altered to add the robot instead of a human. We came across an unedited version of the video on TikTok, which was uploaded in August of this year.

How did we find that out?: We divided the video into several keyframes using a Google Chrome extension InVID, and performed a reverse image search on them.

• This led us to a similar video uploaded on TikTok.

• Since the platform is banned in India, we accessed the video using a VPN tool.

• We compared visuals from the viral video to the one uploaded on TikTok and found that the latter has been digitally altered to add the robot instead of a human.

• While we could not verify the context or details of the video on TikTok, it is clear that the viral one has been digitally altered.

Similar videos have gone viral before: The Quint has previously fact-checked similar videos that were shared as real incidents of robots playing with humans. You can read some of them here, here, and here.

Conclusion: The video showing a person basketball with a robot is digitally altered and does not show a real incident.

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