A video showing people preparing to build and making a massive idol of Lord Ganesh is being widely shared on social media amid Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations across the country.
The claim: The video is being shared to claim that it shows the world's largest idol of Lord Ganesh, which is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
How do we know?: We noticed a watermark reading 'HooHooCreations80' on the video.
When we looked this up, we came across and Instagram account and YouTube channel with the same name.
On Instagram, the account had shared this video on 23 August with an 'AI label', to note that the video used AI-generated content.
The account regularly shares AI-generated videos to depict various unreal scenarios, with its bio mentioning that it specialises in "AI-driven creativity."
Their YouTube channel's description also made several mentions of it sharing "AI-powered content."
News organisation NDTV had previously published a report about this account while discussing its AI video series which reimagined popular foods and clothing.
AI detector: We ran a section of the video through Hive Moderation's AI-generated content detector, which showed a 99.9 percent certainty that the video was an AI-generated one.
Conclusion: An AI-generated video is being shared to falsely claim that it shows the world's biggest Ganesh idol in Chennai.
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