Visuals of Car Tangled in Wires, Dangling Next to a Flyover Are AI-Generated

No such incident took place. The visuals were made using Google's AI tools.

A set of AI-generated visuals are being shared to falsely claim that they show a real incident of a car dangling from wires in Delhi.

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A video and an image, showing a white car tangled in electrical wires and dangling next to a flyover are being widely shared on social media, where users are claiming that they show recent visuals from Delhi.

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Is it true?: No, the claim is false, because the visuals are AI-generated ones.

How did we find out the truth?: We carried out a keyword search with the term 'delhi car dangling from flyover' to look for news reports or credible information about the visuals.

• However, we did not find any content apart from social media posts which could confirm that such an incident had taken place.

• A reverse image search on them, too, yielded no relevant or reliable results.

• Since there was no credible evidence of such an incident happening, we ran the visuals through AI-generated content detectors.

• For the video, Hive Moderation's tool noted a 99.8 percent likelihood of the video being an AI-generated one.

The video is an AI-generated one.

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Similarly, a check on the image also showed a 99.9 percent likelihood of the image being an AI-generated one.

The image is also an AI-generated one.

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Another tool called SightEngine was not as confident as Hive's, giving the image a 76 percent score on being likely to be AI-generated.

Sightengine was less confident in the image being AI-generated.

(Source: Hive SightEngine/Screenshot)

• To know how the image was created or altered, we asked Google's Gemini to run a SynthID check on the image, which detects signals in the image to confirm whether the image was made using its tools.

• It's Verify AI tool confirmed that the image was altered or created using Google's AI tools.

The visuals were created using Google's AI tools.

(Source: Gemini/Screenshot)

Conclusion: A set of AI-generated visuals are being shared to falsely claim that they show a real incident of a car dangling from wires in Delhi.

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