A couple of pictures have surfaced on social media claiming to be of Shah Rukh Khan during his childhood.
One of the Facebook users posted with a caption: “बॉलीवुड के किंग कहे जाने वाले शाहरुख खान बचपन में कुछ ऐसे क्यूट दिखते थे (English translation: Shah Rukh Khan, known as the King of Bollywood, looked so cute in his childhood.)”
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You can check the post here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found them to be AI-generated.
Running a Reverse Image Search on the first picture, our NM team found the same picture in a gallery uploaded on the Filmfare magazine website, dated August 31, 2023. This information shows that the picture was artificially generated.
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Using Hive Moderation — a tool used for assessing AI-generated images — for the second image, we found the photo was AI-generated with 65.2%.
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Hence, we can conclusively say that the viral pictures claiming to depict SRK in his childhood are AI-generated.
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