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An AI-generated video of an Eagle sitting on a Lion is being falsely shared as real

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A video of an eagle sitting on a Lion is doing the rounds on social media. The description of this video reads, ‘When did the eagle and lion become friends?’ We fact-check this claim through this article.

An archived version of this can be found here

Claim: This video shows an Eagle comfortably sitting and hanging out with a Lion.

Fact: This video does not depict a real incident. It was generated using artificial intelligence tools. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.

To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed a reverse image search on a few of its keyframes. This search did not lead us to any credible sources for this video that confirm the authenticity of the video.

While watching the video, we observed a few inconsistencies. For example, in one of the frames in the video, it appears as if the Lion has a wing similar to the eagle. You can observe it clearly popping out from the lion’s left side. Also, in a few shots, the Eagle’s beak is in yellow, but in a few shots, it is in black. In some frames, the Eagle’s face changes from white to brown. Such anomalies and inconsistencies are generally found in videos and images generated using artificial intelligence tools.

During our reverse image search, we found a web story published by TV9 Hindi, in which it was said that internet users claimed that the video was shot in Gujarat. However, when TV9 contacted the Deputy Conservator of Forests(DCF) for confirmation, they denied it and said that it could have been created using AI.

To check if this video was also generated using AI, we ran the video through an AI content detection tool called Hive. The report of this analysis showed us that the video has a 99.9% likelihood of being an AI-generated one. You can find an archived version of this report here.

An additional analysis performed on Hugging Face’s ‘Maybe’s AI Art Detector,’ using a screenshot from the video, also showed that AI-generated it.

To sum up, an AI-generated video depicting a friendship between an Eagle and a Lion is falsely being shared as real.

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