A video (here, here) showing Indian industrialist and billionaire Gautam Adani promoting an investment scheme is being widely shared on social media. The video purportedly shows Adani urging Indian citizens to invest ₹21,000 in the scheme, promising returns of ₹15 lakh within the first month. In this article, let us verify the authenticity of the video.
Claim: Video of Gautam Adani promoting a high-income investment scheme and urging people to invest ₹21,000 to receive returns of ₹15 lakh within the first month.
Fact: This video of Adani endorsing a highly profitable investment scheme is a deepfake. The original footage has been manipulated using AI-driven facial feature alterations and voice cloning. In fact, the original video shows him speaking at the Handover Ceremony of Port Haifa in Israel on 31 January 2023. There are no reports of Adani promoting any high-income-generating investment platform. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
We performed a relevant keyword search on the internet to check whether Gautam Adani has endorsed or launched any such high-income-generating investment platform. However, we found no credible reports of Adani promoting or launching any such investment scheme.
Upon closer inspection of the viral video, discrepancies can be observed in Adani’s voice and lip movements while speaking. This suggests that the video may have been digitally altered or created using deepfake technology.
To verify this, we ran the video through multiple AI detection tools, including Hive, Resemble AI, and Hiya. These tools confirmed that the viral video contains AI-generated or deepfake content. Hive flagged the audio as being 96.5% AI-generated. Similarly, both Hiya AI and Resemble AI, tools designed to detect AI-generated audio, also identified several segments as artificially generated. This confirms that the video is fake.
Furthermore, a reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a video uploaded on the official YouTube channel of the Adani Group on 31 January 2023. The viral clip begins around the 02:16 timestamp in the original video. According to the video’s description, it features Gautam Adani speaking at the Handover Ceremony of Port Haifa in Israel. Nowhere in the speech does Adani endorse any such scheme. The full transcript of his speech can be seen here. Based on all this information, it is evident that this viral video of Adani endorsing an investment scheme is fake and has been created using deepfake technology.
Additionally, the link embedded in the viral video is non-functional and may redirect users to fraudulent or phishing websites designed to steal personal data.
Factly has previously debunked numerous deepfake videos featuring prominent personalities that were designed to scam the public. Relevant fact-check articles can be seen here, here, here, and here.
To sum it up, the visuals showing Gautam Adani promoting a highly profitable investment scheme have been created using deepfake technology.
