Authors
Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.
Claim
Photos of Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer with choreographer Dhanashree Verma in a swimming pool, amid reports of Verma and her husband, cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, heading towards a divorce.
Fact
Newschecker noticed the extremely glossy texture of the images, suggesting that they could be AI-generated.
Image 1
We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI image detection tool, which said it was 99.5% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another detection tool, Truemedia, too, found some evidence of AI manipulation.
Image 2
We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI image detection, which said it was 96.2% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another detection tool, Truemedia, too, found some evidence of AI manipulation.
We also found that several Facebook accounts have posted the same photos, seen here, here and here, with a disclaimer stating that they are AI-generated images.
Result: Altered Media
Sources
Hive Moderation tool
Truemedia tool
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Authors
Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.
