A collage of photos (here, here and here), allegedly showing a sand art portrait of Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli crafted by a young boy, is going viral on social media. We fact-check this claim through this article.
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Claim: These photos showcase the sand art of Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli created by a little boy.
Fact: According to the AI content detection tool ‘Hive’, these images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence. Therefore, the claim presented in the post is False.
To fact-check this claim, we observed the viral images closely. Firstly, one of the photos in the collage presented a spelling error; ‘Sports’ was incorrectly spelled as ‘Spoot’. Additionally, some of the social media accounts (here and here) sharing the image included a ‘#PhotoEditingChallenge’ hashtag along with the collage. Furthermore, these accounts often identified themselves as ‘Digital Creators’ in their social media bios.
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These observations led to doubts regarding the authenticity of the photos, suggesting they might have been generated using Artificial Intelligence. To confirm these doubts, we ran the viral collage through a AI Content Detection tool known as ‘AI Classifier’ by Hive. The results suggested that the image is 100% likely to be AI-generated.
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Another AI content detection tool known as ‘Maybe’s AI Art Detector’ also identified this as an AI-generated image.
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To sum up, the images in question are not genuine sand art of Virat Kohli crafted by a child, but rather AI-generated images.