Claim: The video shows Iranian and Pakistani female soldiers commenting on Israel and the US’ war against Iran.
fact: Analysis revealed that the clip was generated using OpenAI’s Sora.
A Facebook user posted a video purporting to show Iranian and Pakistani female soldiers commenting on Israel and the US’ war against Iran.
first clipA video from March 31 purportedly shows an Iranian female soldier thanking Pakistan for its support. The caption reads, “Iran thanks Pakistan.”
In the video, a reporter tells a soldier that the world says Iran is fighting alone, and places a microphone in front of her. She replied, “There is no doubt that Iran is fighting alone. But only we know how Pakistan has helped us. The Pakistani army is fighting alongside us and we are grateful for that…”
The same user made another post clip On March 29, a reporter was apparently shown asking a female Pakistani soldier how Iran fared against the world’s superpowers. She replies: “No country in history has stood up to the world’s largest nuclear power for almost a month. This is a source of pride for all mankind. Yes, Iran has won the hearts of people. Iran has proven that if you are on the right path…”
The caption here reads: “Pakistan Army” [sic] “Reply to the Reporter.”
Fact or fiction?
Soch fact check It turns out that the video was generated using Sora software.
video 1: This clip has all the telltale signs of being generated by AI.
At 0:02, the text on the uniform tag is gibberish and misspelled. The tag on the right side says “IRAN NI RMY” and the tag on the left side also appears to say “Iranian Army”, but if you look closely you can see the spelling mistake. These are telltale signs of AI software. conflict Generate consistent text.
The video is said to be of an Iranian female soldier with unintelligible characters written on her uniform.
Furthermore, one of the Iranian flags, for example at 0:13, is missing the red emblem “Allah” with a white stripe in the middle, which is also a sign of AI.
The Iranian flag is missing the red emblem with a central white stripe.
This clip also includes a “Sora” watermark. Sora is an AI generation software by. OpenAI It takes text input as a prompt and generates a video. This confirms that the clip was created using this software.
A Sora watermark will appear on the video.
Soch fact check We also ran the clip through an AI detection tool. hive moderation This means that “the input is likely to include AI-generated content or deepfake content.” Notably, the tool also confirmed that ‘sora2’ was used to create this video.
Results from hive.
Soch fact check This confirms that the clip was generated by AI.
video 2: This video also has the telltale signs of being generated by AI, with the Sora logo.
The tag on the female soldier’s uniform is likely written in Urdu, but the text is gibberish and gibberish, a clear sign of AI-generated software.
Tags with disordered characters.
Another sign is the entrance sign at the beginning of the clip, which displays blurry and illegible Urdu script.
A signboard with blurred and unreadable text.
Additionally, the clip also includes a Sora watermark, indicating that this software by OpenAI was used in its creation.
Finally, Hive Moderation returned a total probability of 99.9% for the entire clip, confirming that Sora was also used to generate this footage.
Results from hive.
Soch fact check This confirms that the clip was generated by AI.
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first clip has been reshared 11,000 times and received at least 210,000 likes.
It was also posted on Instagram here and here.
You can also see it in the thread here.
second video A Pakistani female soldier’s post on Facebook received 3,200 reactions and was reshared 390 times.
Appeared on Instagram, here.
Conclusion: Both clips were generated using OpenAI’s Sora software.
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