Fact-Check: AI-Generated Video of Vendor Making Burgers With His Feet Goes Viral

We found out that video is a deepfake.

An AI-generated video of a man making burgers with his feet is being shared on the internet, falsely claiming to show an Indian street vendor. 

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A video of a man making burgers with his feet is being shared on the internet, claiming to show an Indian street vendor. The people in the video can be heard speaking in Hindi.

• The video, shared on X by user @MarioNawfal, garnered over one million views.

An archived version of this claim can be found here. 

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(Archived versions of similar claims can be found here, here, and here)

Is it true?: No, the video is an AI-generated video and does not show real footage of a street vendor cooking with his feet.

How did we find out?: We ran a reverse image search on the video and couldn't find any credible sources sharing it.

• Following this, we ran the video through Hive Moderation, an AI-detection tool, which flagged the video as more than 97 percent likely to be AI-generated.

Here is the result from Hive Moderation.

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• While observing the video, we noticed that the man's lip movements look unnatural, an indicator of AI.

The lip movements are unnatural

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• We also noticed the tool that the man is using to cook, along with the burger, unnaturally slides off on its own in the video.

The burger slides off unnaturally. 

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Conclusion: The video is a deepfake and does not show real footage of an Indian street vendor cooking with his feet.

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