A video purportedly showing former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talking about an investment a platform that uses “AI based analyses to predict market trends for success rate" is going viral online.
In the video, Singh also purportedly says that this application benefited several volunteers who earned Rs 75,000 per day.
Who shared this?: A Facebook page named 'CLUB CINTA' shared this video. The same account also shared another deepfake video showing Gautam Adani purportedly talking about the same investment scheme.
An archive can be seen here.
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But this is a deepfake video: Several AI-detection tools like Contrails AI and TrueMedia concluded this video has audio and video manipulation.
No such application has been officially launched or promoted by Singh.
How did we find out the truth?: We noticed that Singh's jaw was moving very unnaturally which indicated manipulation.
After conducting a reverse image search on some of the viral video's keyframes, we came across the original video shared by Indian National Congress' official YouTube account.
This was shared on 1 September 2019 and does not show Singh talking about any investment platform.
Singh is speaking about the state of the economy and GDP growth rate.
What did the AI-detection tools say?: TrueMedia's AI detection tool detected a substantial amount of audio manipulation in the viral video.
TrueMedia detected "substantial evidence of manipulation".
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The analysis also returned with 100% confidence in audio manipulation which means Singh's original video was cloned with a AI voice.
TrueMedia was certain that the audio was created or manipulated using AI.
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We shared the video with ConTrails AI, a Bangalore-based startup, that has its own AI tools for detection of audio and video spoofs, for an analysis of the audio part of the claim.
Their analysis stated that the video frames of this viral clip appear to have lip-synced AI manipulation.
Their tool generated a report and concluded that both the video and audio are manipulated in this clip.
Contrails AI detected manipulation in the audio and video.
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It also generated a graph which showed values specifically indicating audio manipulation.
The graph showed manipulation in audio.
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Conclusion: A deepfake video of Manmohan Singh promoting an investment application is going viral as real.
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