A video claiming to show CCTV footage of a tiger attacking a man at the Brahmapuri Forest Guest House in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, is being shared on social media (here, here, and here). The video shows a man sitting outside when a tiger suddenly appears and drags him away. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: The video shows a tiger attacking a man sitting outside the forest guest house in Chandrapur district’s Brahmapuri.
Fact: The video is AI-generated, not a real CCTV recording. The forest officials and PIB reported that no such incident took place and that it’s an AI-generated one. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On performing a keyword search regarding the incident, we couldn’t find any reliable sources reporting such an incident. On closer observation, we can see the tiger and the guard seem to blend oddly with the background in a few frames, hinting that the video may have been digitally created.
Furthermore, we analysed the video using Hive Moderation, an AI content detection tool, which indicated that the footage was 94% likely to be AI-generated.
To verify further, we contacted the Chandrapur Forest officials, who confirmed that the video is fake.
Moreover, PIB Maharashtra, through X post, refuted the claim and confirmed that the viral video was AI-generated, not real CCTV footage.
To sum up, the video claiming to show a tiger attack at the Brahmapuri Forest Guest House is AI-generated.
