A video (here, here and here) is going viral showing a reporter covering an alleged “tiger market,” where people are allegedly seen in line to sell tigers. It is being shared with the claim that this market is located in Bagerhat, Bangladesh, and that royal Bengal tigers are sold there. Let’s find out the truth behind this video.
Claim: The viral video shows scenes from a real tiger market in Bangladesh.
Fact: The video does not depict a real tiger market. It was created using Google’s ‘Veo’ AI tool, and multiple AI detection tools have confirmed it is AI-generated. Therefore, the claim is FALSE.
To find the truth, we closely examined the video and noticed several inconsistencies. The facial expressions of both the tigers and the people appeared unnatural in places — a common trait seen in deepfake or AI-generated content (here and here).
Further, we performed a reverse image search on Google, which led us to several extended versions of the same video. These clearly mentioned that the video was AI-generated. We also found the same clip shared by other social media handles, many of which explicitly stated that the video is AI-created (here, here and here). Additionally, we can see a watermark of “Veo” at the bottom right corner of the uncropped video (here, & here). This watermark confirms that the viral video was created using Google’s ‘Veo’ AI model (here, here, here, & here).
Furthermore, we used Google’s ‘SynthID‘ tool, which detects content generated by its AI models, and it confirmed that the video was created using Google AI.
We also used AI detection tools like Hive, which showed an 89% probability of the video being AI-generated. Based on this and other supporting evidence, it is confirmed that the video is a deepfake created using AI.
To sum up, the video claiming to show a tiger market in Bangladesh is a deepfake created using AI.
