Viral Photos Of Sonakshi Sinha In A Burkha Are AI-Generated

Claim

Photos of actor Sonakshi Sinha in a burkha with her husband, Zaheer Iqbal, purportedly from the India vs Pakistan Champions Trophy clash in Dubai on Sunday (February 23).

 The archived version of the post can be seen here.

Fact

Newschecker noticed that the photos seemed overly glossy, while the background is blurry, all signs pointing towards AI-generated imagery.

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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-image detection tool, which found it “99.4% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”.

The IsitAI? tool, too, determined the image to be highly likely (81%) AI-generated.

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We ran the image past Hive Moderation, an AI-image detection tool, which found it “99.3% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”.

The IsitAI? tool, too, determined the image to be highly likely (80%) AI-generated.

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Hive Moderation tool
IsitAI? tool