Fact-Check: Did This Kangaroo Try To Board a Flight? No, It’s AI!

The clip is an AI-generated video and does not really show a kangaroo trying to board a flight.

An AI-generated video of a kangaroo holding a boarding pass while trying to board a flight has gone viral on social media as a real clip.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

A video of a woman arguing with airline staff while standing next to a kangaroo holding a boarding pass has gone viral on social media.

The claim: Those sharing the 10-second clip have claimed that it shows a woman trying to board a flight with her pet kangaroo.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)

The clip is viral on Facebook and X.

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this video can be seen here, here, here, and here.)

But...?: The clip was made using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

How do we know?: When we watched the clip, we noticed that the words being spoken in the video did not sound like any existing language.

• Additionally, the text on the kangaroo's harness and boarding pass were blurred and nonsensical, which is a tell-tale sign of a visual being AI-generated.

The text visible in the video was all gibberish.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

• When we ran a reverse image search on the clip, we found that the video was first shared by an Instagram account named 'Infinite Unreality', which had shared it with an 'AI Info' tag.

• This tag indicates that the content shared was created or manipulated using AI.

The video had an 'AI Info' label.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

A closer look at the account's bio said that it showed 'unreality'.

It's bio read, "Your Daily Dose of Unreality (sic)."

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

We also saw that it regularly shares AI-generated content.

Every video shared by this account appeared to be AI-generated.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

What did AI detectors say?: We ran the clip through Hive Moderation's AI-generated content detection tool.

• It said that the clip was 99.9 percent "likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content."

Hive Moderation's tool was completely confident that the video is AI-generated.

(Source: Hive Moderation/Screenshot)

We also submitted the video the Bengaluru-based startup Contrails.ai's AI generated content detection tool and will add the findings of their analysis when it is complete.

Conclusion: An AI-generated video of a kangaroo trying to board a plane has gone viral as a real video of such an incident.

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