2025 Champions Trophy: AI-Generated Photos Of Virat Kohli With Anushka Sharma Go Viral

Claim

Photos of Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma celebrating India’s victory over Australia in the Champions Trophy semi-final on March 4.

Fact

Newschecker noticed the extra sharpness of the images along with the blurry background, indicating that they may be AI-generated.

Also, we came across multiple reports, seen here and here, about the couple at the match, where you can clearly see that Sharma’s attire was not the same as seen in the viral images.

Image 1

We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-image detection tool, which found the image to be “99.8% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”. Another tool, SightEngine, too, found the image to be 99% likely AI-generated.

Image 2

We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-image detection tool, which found the image to be “99.9% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”. Another tool, SightEngine, too, found the image to be 99% likely AI-generated.

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Sources
Hive Moderation tool
SightEngine tool