A video of a gorilla picking and handing a baby to a woman standing on the other side of the fence is going viral on social media platforms as a recent incident.
The viral clip carried text that said, "Gorilla Gently Returns Baby Girl To Her Mom Without Laying A Finger."
What are the facts?: The video has been generated using the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and did not show real visuals.
Hints in the viral clip: We noticed that the video showed unnatural movements of both the gorilla and the woman seen in it.
At one point, we could find a mark on the animal's right hand, which disappears in the next frame.
Towards the end of the clip, one can notice that the hands of the woman and the gorilla appear to be intertwined.
These anomalies pointed us towards the possibility of the viral clip being an AI-generated one.
Taking this forward, we conducted a keyword search on YouTube using the words "gorilla hands baby to mother" and found an older version of the viral clip uploaded on an unverified channel named 'AI-Videos-Arg'.
It was shared on 29 June with a caption that said, "Zoo Gorilla Gives Baby Back To Mother."
Its description said that the video was 'altered or synthetic content'.
What did detection tools show?: Team WebQoof passed the YouTube clip through an AI detection tool named 'Hive Moderation'. The tool showed over 99 percent probability of the video being generated using AI.
Conclusion: It is evident that the video of a gorilla handing a baby to a woman is AI-generated.
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