Severe monsoon rains have caused catastrophic floods in Pakistan and parts of India, driving away thousands of people. But not all videos that claim to show destruction are real. Much of the content is irrelevant or generated by AI. Common scenes with AI content include destroyed marketsTrain stuck in the waterhelicopter rescue.
AI trains are stuck in floods
Claim: Instagram users He posted a video of the train trapped in the flood, suggesting that it showed the current flooding in Patna, India.
DW Fact Check: fake.
Through reverse image search using screenshots of a video showing a stack train, DW fact check tracked it to the first account Where the clip was originally posted. According to the account description, it is an “AI video creator” and the channel points out that the video in question is fully generated (…) don't get it as actual footage.”
Without that information, you can easily find the typical errors made by artificial intelligence. The human hands generated by AI partially melt each other in an unnatural way. People's hair doesn't look real either.
Another indicator of AI-generated content is the text seen on trains. The words at the top of the video are certainly in Hindi, but two DW journalists who know the Indian language and script were unable to identify the writing of the train. The characters seem to be inspired by Punjabi and Hindi, but despite the trains resemble South Asian scripts, they are not attributed to Indian scripts.
Furthermore, there are no news reports mentioning such incidents in Patna.
Several social media users share dramatic scenes showing trains trapped in floods and helicopters. From the train or car . Many of these videos have one thing in common. They are generated by AI. Both countries and helicopter rescues have been devastating flooding It happens, these rescue operations are not real. Again, you can discover typical ai-errors. On suspicion of rescue of the helicopter, the helicopter rotor blades rotate simultaneously on both the left and right sides.
YouTube Shorts is currently labelled on several videos Just like AI generated – not all of them.
Is this van wiped out in Pakistan?
Claim: Facebook users The video claims that it shows flooding in Lahore, Pakistan, implying that it has been recent. The video description reads, “A huge tragedy: the entire school bus, including children, is being washed away by the flood.” It shows that the green van is being swept away by the water until it finally sinks. Scenes from this video are also shared by other users In the context of the current flood.
DW Fact Check: error.
DW Fact Check found YouTube videos through reverse image searchIt shows the incident from a different angle. The video was originally filmed during a flood in Iran in 2022, and in text below the YouTube video, Falsi said: Farsi Language Sources for 2022 Make sure this incident happened and that the van was wiped out by the flood. At least seven passengers died in the incident.
In late July 2022, Iran was hit by several floods and landslides. At the time, DW reported on a video that showed a video posted on social media being carried by being caught in an elevated body of water.
Is this a cloudburst in Pakistan?
Claim: Users shared a video at the end of August Cloudburst is linked to the current floods in Pakistan. The text in the top Urdu video reads as “Cloudburst scene.” One user commented under the video, suspecting it was created with AI. This video was already featured in Tiktok a few weeks ago.
DW Fact Check: error.
The video suggests that the cloudburst took place in Pakistan, but acutally shows the Australian scene from 2020.. The video text reads “Kane Artie Photography.” Kane Artie is a photographer Based in Perth, where the stills were shared From the time-lapse video of Microburst in February 2020. This shows the same scene as the video currently shared in the context with Pakistan.
This video has already been used several times in misleading contexts, for example, in connection with the flood disaster in Spain. Or in Bangalore, India. However, it is undoubtedly irrelevant to the recent floods in Pakistan and India.
Editor: UTA Steinwehr
