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The AI-generated video is being shared as real footage of Indian media coverage of Pakistan mediating negotiations between Iran and the US.
(Source: X/Modified The Quint)
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Social media users have been sharing videos they claim show Indian media reporting on Pakistan’s mediation of Iran-US negotiations.
The video has been shared as real footage of an Indian newscaster, showing the anchor furious that Pakistan allegedly “stopped the war between Iran and the US” and India “had to stand by” while it was happening.
An archived version of this post can be found here.
(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)
(Archived versions of other posts sharing this claim can be found here, here, here, and here.)
but…? : This video is generated by AI and does not show actual footage.
How did we know the truth?: We looked at the video carefully and noticed some mistakes in the video.
“BREAKIN NEWS” was misspelled, the logos in the top right and bottom left corners didn’t match, almost all the text on the screen was gibberish, and the anchors seemed to move choppy.
The video has multiple errors.
(Source: X/Modified The Quint)
All of these errors are specific to AI-generated videos.
To verify this, we ran the audio through Hiya’s deepfake audio detector, which gave us a reliability score of 9 out of 100.
He pointed out that the sampled audio was likely a deepfake.
(Source: Hiya/Screenshot)
We also ran tests through the University of Buffalo’s Deepfake-o-Meter, which tests each submission with 10 tools.
Five of the tools indicated a “high” chance that the video was generated by AI, while others indicated a medium probability of the same.
The video is generated by AI.
(Source: Deepfake-o-Meter/Screenshot)
Conclusion: The AI-generated video is being shared as real footage of Indian media coverage of Pakistan mediating negotiations between Iran and the US.
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