A picture showing a small island against the background of the sky filled with rays of a setting sun and coconut trees forming the outline of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face, claimed to be clicked by a French tourist near Gokarna is being shared on social media. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: A French photographer in Gokarna clicks a picture resembling PM Modi’s face.
Fact: The image is made using AI-powered tools by an artist, Madhav Kohli. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
On reverse image search of the photo shared in the post, we found articles published by Mint and Hindustan Times talking about the same image. The picture was generated using AI tools by Madhav Kohli and was shared on ‘X’
Subsequent research based on the above information led to the page of the creator Madhav Kohli on ‘X’ where the image was found with the caption ‘Do you see him too?’ Also, the artist mentioned in the comments that the image was created using the AI platform called ‘stable diffusion.’
More AI-generated images published on the page can be seen here and here.
To sum up, an image with trees depicting the face of PM Modi is AI-generated.
