A photograph showing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with a woman wearing sunglasses is being shared on social media, where users are questioning the identity of the woman who Gandhi took a selfie with.
Some users have claimed that it shows the "daughter of a drug lord" Veronique Cartelli.
How do we know?: Using Google Lens, we ran a reverse image search to look for more information about the photograph.
However, we could not find any credible source sharing this image.
We noticed that the background of the image, showing a city street, was unnaturally smooth and did not show any textures.
Additionally, Gandhi's eyes and facial lines appear oddly shaped as well.
These are two common signs of an image being an AI-generated one.
Is it AI?: We submitted this image to AI-generated content detectors SightEngine and WasitAI to verify whether the image was real.
SightEngine showed a 96 percent probability of the image being an AI-generated one.
It noted that the image may have been made using OpenAI's GPT-4o model.
Similarly, WasitAI was "quite confident" that the image was created by AI.
Conclusion: An AI-generated image has gone viral with the false claim that it shows Rahul Gandhi with a woman.
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