A video showing Chairperson of Kotak Securities Uday Kotak, promoting an investment platform is going viral online.
In the video, he talks about investing ₹21,000 and earning more than ₹400,000 per week.
What's the truth?: This has been manipulated by adding AI-generated audio on an old video of Kotak. He hasn't promoted any such investment platform in reality.
How did we find out the truth?: We checked Kotak Securities's official website but did not find any such announcement.
We also performed a relevant keyword search on Google but found no credible reports about this platform or Kotak's interview.
We then ran some of the keyframes of the video on Google Lens and this led us to a YouTube video shared by Kotak Mahindra Bank.
This was shared on 14 May 2014, and it was titled ‘Uday Kotak’s views on Young & Digital.’
We scanned through the entire video and it does not show Kotak promoting any investment platform, as claimed.
We also ran the video through AI detection tools like Contrails AI and Hive Moderation and the results concluded that the video was manipulated using AI technology.
Contrails AI also specified that both audio and video have clear signs of AI manipulation including usage of lip sync and audio clones.
Conclusion: An AI-manipulated video of Uday Kotak is being shared online to claim that he is promoting an investment platform.
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