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Fact Check: Viral video showing late actor Shobhan Babu’s doppleganger is AI generated

A short video of a man walking on a beach is going viral on the social media with the claim that it shows Telugu veteran actor late Shobhan Babu’s doppleganger.

By 10 Jan 2024 11:00 AM GMT
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  • Claim :

    Viral video shows Telugu veteran actor late Shobhan Babu’s doppleganger

  • Fact :

    Viral video has been created using AI technology-based mobile photo enhancer application and it is not original person who looks like the veteran actor

A short video of a man walking on a beach is going viral on the social media with the claim that it shows Telugu veteran actor late Shobhan Babu’s doppleganger.

The claim in Telugu reads: “మళ్లీ పుట్టినాడు శోభన్ బాబు.”, which claims that Shobhan Babu is born again.

A few users shared it with the claim: “మోడ్రన్ శోభన్ బాబు గారు”, ‘Modern Shobhan babu’,


Fact Check:

The claim is False. The video is an AI generated image created using a mobile photo enhancer application.

When we searched the extracted keyframes using Google reverse image search, we found a video shared by a YouTube channel named skillsmotive showing a man with the same background from 0.50 seconds to 0.58 seconds. However, the person seen in the video is not Tollywood actor Shobhan Babu.

Similar short was shared by several other YouTube users, but with swapped face.

A YouTube user shared similar short with a swapped face, with the title ‘Created with Photo Lab app #photolab on December 26, 2023.’ The short video has the watermark of photolab.me with #photolab.

When we searched more about photolab.me, we found that it is a mobile app which allows you to edit photos with face filters for pictures, stylish photo effects and lots of pic art ideas. Photo Lab as an AI photo editor app offers everything you want to enhance your photo and add originality to your selfie.

Users can create photo frames, realistic photo effects, face photo montages, etc. Faces can be swapped to turn themselves into a cartoon character. The most complicated photo montages are handled automatically by a fact detection algorithm to create the most unsusual selfies.

Therefore, the viral claim that the person in the video is Telugu veteran actor late Shobhan Babu’s lookalike is False. The image is an AI generated created using mobile photo enhancer software.

Claim :   Viral video shows Telugu veteran actor late Shobhan Babu’s doppleganger
Claimed By :  Social media users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Social media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Viral video showing late actor Shobhan Babu’s doppleganger is AI generated
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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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