AI Video Shared as Real Visuals of Bridge Collapsing in Indonesia’s Bali

A detection tool showed 100% probability of the video being an AI one.

A video that shows a bridge, on top of which people can be seen walking, collapsing is being shared on social media platforms as a recent incident from Indonesia's Bali.

What does the viral post say?: The clip was shared with a caption in Hindi that loosely translated to, "30-40 tourists die after wooden bridge collapses in Indonesia."

The post had gained over four thousand likes on the platform. You can view archives of similar claims here and here.

Is the video real?: No, the video has been generated using the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and does not show real visuals.

How did we find that out?: We divided the video into several keyframes and conducted a reverse image search on them.

• A Google Lens search directed us to the same visuals published on an Instagram account named 'kolotov_ai'.

• The video was published on 24 July 2025.

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A post shared by Колотов Сергей | Спец по нейросетям & Ai creator (@kolotov_ai)

About the Instagram account: On going through the account, we found that the user identified themself as "Neural Networks specialist and Ai creator".

• We found that the page regularly posts such AI-generated clips. You can watch some of them here and here.

What did a detection tool show?: To further verify the authenticity of the video, we passed it through an AI detection tool named 'DeepFake-0-Meter'.

• One of the detectors showed a 100 percent probability of the viral video being an AI-generated one.

Conclusion: Evidently, the video has been generated using AI and does not show a real incident.

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