AI-Generated Clip of Protest Against Marathi Imposition in Mumbai Goes Viral

This video is not real but generated using AI.

An AI-generated video is going viral to claim that people are protesting in Mumbai against Marathi imposition.

(Photo: The Quint)

A video showing people protesting against Marathi imposition in Maharashtra's Mumbai is going viral on social media.

The text on the placards reads, "I don't speak Marathi".

An archive can be seen here.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)

(Archives of similar claims can be seen here and here.)

What's the truth?: This video is generated using AI and is not real.

How did we find out the truth?: We noticed the username 'paribhraman' on the video and performed a relevant keyword search on Google.

This led us to the original video shared by the same user on Instagram.

• The caption specified that this is an AI-generated video.

• The account has shared several other AI-generated videos covering different topics.

AI-detection tools: We also checked the video on AI-detection tool, Hive Moderation, and the results concluded that this video is 99.6 percent likely to be AI-generated content.

The video is not real.

(Source: HM/Screenshot)

• Moreover, we also noticed some discrepancies in the video, for example, hands, legs and faces were not clear/deformed.

• The word 'label' was also misspelled in the video as a non-English word, 'LÉBEL'.

This is an AI-generated video.

(Source: Altered by The Quint)

Moreover, we did not find any news reports about such protests.

Conclusion: An AI-generated video is going viral to claim that people are protesting in Mumbai against Marathi imposition.

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