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
Several photos, claiming to show Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami with former tennis star Sania Mirza, sparked rumours of the two athletes being in a relationship and a potential wedding.
The archived versions of the posts can be seen here and here.
Fact
Newschecker noticed the extra glossy texture of the images and the blurry backgrounds, signs pointing towards the media being AI-generated.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 99.8% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 99.5% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 99.9% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 99.1% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 99.8% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 99.7% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, which said it is 98.5% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Another tool, TrueMedia, too, concluded that there was “substantial evidence of manipulation”.
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Result: Altered Media
Sources
TrueMedia tool
HiveModeration 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.
