Does This Video Show Israelis Asking Iran To Stop the War? No, It’s AI!

Multiple detection tools and several discrepancies in the viral clip showed that it was AI-generated.

Fact-Check | The visuals are AI-generated and are not real.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video of a crowd chanting "Stop the war. Iran, we are sorry. We want peace" slogans is being circulated on social media platforms with users linking it to the recent Israel-Iran aggressions.

What did the viral post say?: Those sharing the clip have uploaded it with a caption that said, "Stop the war !! #Iran we are sorry. What are people of Israel saying?."

An archive of the post can be found here.

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The above post had garnered over one lakh views on the platform. Archives of similar such claims could be found here, here, and here.

What are the facts?: The video has been generated using the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and does not show real visuals.

Discrepancies in the viral video: We noticed multiple discrepancies in the viral clip, which included a sudden transition showing a man lifting his fist in one frame and a flag appearing in the next one.

• In the background, we found several distorted faces which is usually an indicator of AI-generated visuals.

The video carried several discrepancies.

(Source: Viral video/Screenshot/Altered by The Quint)

• Team WebQoof also found a watermark that said "Veo" on the bottom-right of the viral clip.

• Veo is a tool developed by Google that allows users to generate AI-generated visuals.

The video had a "Veo" watermark.

(Source: Veo/Screenshot/Altered by The Quint)

What did detection tools show?: We passed the video through two detection tools namely 'Hive Moderation' and 'DeepFake-O-Meter' to further verify the viral clip's authenticity.

• The first tool showed over 98 percent probability of the video being an AI-generated one.

• Three indicators of the second tool showed a conclusive result, which made it clear that the video was AI.

• (Swipe right to view all screenshots.)

(Source: Hive Moderation/Screenshot)

(Source: Deepfake-o-meter/Screenshot)

Conclusion: It is evident that the video was AI-generated and did not show real visuals.

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