Viral Video of Israelis Singing Hanuman Chalisa in Tel Aviv Is AI-Generated

We found out the video is AI-generated.

A video is going viral on social media, claiming to show Israelis singing the Hindu hymn 'Hanuman Chalisa' in Hebrew at a Tel Aviv beach in Israel.

• According to the users sharing the video, it was "in honour of the Indian pilot Captain Sumit who saved Jewish lives on a FlyDubai flight after he recited the powerful mantra (sic)."

(Archived versions of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is it true?: No, the claim is false, as the video is AI-generated.

How did we find out?: We ran a reverse image search on the video and a keyword search related to the claim. We couldn't find any reports or credible sources that shared the video.

• While carefully observing the video, we noticed some irregularities.

• Behind the stage, a banner reads, "Thank You Smith". However, the words are illegible and appear distorted throughout the video and start to expand at the 40-second mark, a sign of AI.

• A watermark resembling the Gemini logo appears in the bottom-right corner in certain frames.

We shared the viral clip with the Deepfakes Analysis Unit (DAU), which ran it through several AI content detectors.

• The video was divided into screenshots and ran through AI or Not, an AI detection tool.

• For the first screenshot, it indicated an 82 percent probability that it was AI-generated and an 89 percent probability that it was a deepfake.

• For the second screenshot, it indicated a 31 percent probability that it was AI-generated and an 83 percent probability that it was a deepfake.

• For the third screenshot, it indicated a 75 percent probability that it was AI-generated and a 92 percent probability that it was a deepfake. (Swipe)

• AI image detector, ImageWhisperer, flagged all three screenshots as AI-generated. (Swipe)

• AI detection tool Sightengine flagged two screenshots as AI-generated. (Swipe)

• Meta's identifier tool, which detects whether a piece of media was created using its tools, confirmed that its signatures were detected in the third section of the clip.

Conclusion: The claim is false, as the video is AI-generated.

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