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Fact Check: Viral video showing a couple of rare, unusual birds is AI generated

Birds are colourful and amazing creatures, inspiring and active any time. They play a vital part in nature’s balance and

By 19 Nov 2024 9:07 AM GMT
Rare birds,Viral video AI generated, AI, AI generated

  • Claim :

    A viral video shows a couple of rare colourful Japanese birds

  • Fact :

    The video showing rare birds is AI-generated

Birds are colourful and amazing creatures, inspiring and active any time. They play a vital part in nature’s balance and ecosystems, which can affect human health, world economy, food production, etc. There are millions of bird species on the Earth. Birds have streamlined bodies that are covered with feathers which reduce resistance to air during flight. There are many birds on the Earth that have stunning colours, patterns and behaviours. A large number of people all over the world enjoy bird watching.

A video of two beautiful colourful and exotic birds perched on a tree branch is being widely shared on social media. These birds are ornate and have unique appearance with patterns and features resembling hats. We can see beads decorated on their feathers. The beaks and the neck also have silver decorations. This video is in circulation with captions ‘Amazing Japanese Birds. Pajaros Japoneses’.

‘Rare bird species’.

Fact Check:

The claim is False. The video is AI-generated. The birds seen in the video are not found in nature.

When we extracted keyframes from the video and searched, we found an X post shared by an account named Science Girl with the caption “A King and his Queen. AI”. The video was taken from another X account named Zhang Nuonuo, which shared the same video on November 5, 2024. When checked the comments, we could confirm that the video was AI-generated. We can see a very high confidence score in ai generated and stable diffusion. The score on ai generated is 0.98 and the score of stable diffusion is 0.95.


When we verified the video using the hive moderation AI detection tool, we found that the video was 98.4 % likely to be a deepfake or AI-generated.


Here are some other X users sharing the video with the caption AI-generated.

When we searched further, we found a few similar videos published on social media handles of birds which look similar to the birds in the viral video, with captions like beautiful birds, rare birds, etc. We found several other similar videos of birds also generated using AI.

Therefore, the viral video does not show real rare birds from Japan. It is generated by AI technology. The claim that the exotic and ornamental birds are from Japan is False.

Claim :   A viral video shows a couple of rare colourful Japanese birds
Claimed By :  Social media users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Social media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Viral video of birds is AI generated
Subhash

Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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