AI Video Shared as Real Visuals of Bridge Collapsing in Indonesia’s Bali

A detection tool showed 100% probability of the video being an AI one.

Fact-Check | This video has been generated using the help of AI and does not show real visuals.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video that shows a bridge, on top of which people can be seen walking, collapsing is being shared on social media platforms as a recent incident from Indonesia's Bali.

What does the viral post say?: The clip was shared with a caption in Hindi that loosely translated to, "30-40 tourists die after wooden bridge collapses in Indonesia."

An archive of the post can be found here.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

The post had gained over four thousand likes on the platform. You can view archives of similar claims here and here.

Is the video real?: No, the video has been generated using the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and does not show real visuals.

How did we find that out?: We divided the video into several keyframes and conducted a reverse image search on them.

• A Google Lens search directed us to the same visuals published on an Instagram account named 'kolotov_ai'.

• The video was published on 24 July 2025.

About the Instagram account: On going through the account, we found that the user identified themself as "Neural Networks specialist and Ai creator".

• We found that the page regularly posts such AI-generated clips. You can watch some of them here and here.

The user identified themself as an AI creator.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

What did a detection tool show?: To further verify the authenticity of the video, we passed it through an AI detection tool named 'DeepFake-0-Meter'.

• One of the detectors showed a 100 percent probability of the viral video being an AI-generated one.

One detector of the tool showed a 100% chance of the video being an AI one.

(Source: DeepFake-O-Meter/Screenshot)

Conclusion: Evidently, the video has been generated using AI and does not show a real incident.

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