A photograph depicting a small island set against the backdrop of a sunset-lit sky, with tree branches and leaves outlining the face of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, is widely circulated on social media, claiming that the image has been captured by an Australian tourist near Colva beach in South Goa.
The image is shared with a caption: ‘This photograph was clicked by an Australian Tourist in Colva beach, South Goa & it’s a ‘message to the entire Planet Earth by mother Nature’.
This Facebook post can be seen here.
It is being widely shared on Facebook and X with a similar claim.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
We came across a similar post where Prime Minister Modi’s image was used in the background. The NM team during the fact-check found that the viral image was created using an AI platform known as ‘stable diffusion.’ Click here to read our report.
Conducting a reverse image search of the photo shared in the post, our team spotted the viral image in a tweet shared on September 27, 2023. The tweet suggests that it was created by utilising AI tools, and shared it on X platform with a caption: “Satire alert: This pic is satirically posted with the purpose to tackle Modi’s fake AI-generated post which was spread on WhatsApp thinking it was real !! Open your eyes uncles.”
Satire alert: This pic is satirically posted with the purpose to tackle Modi’s fake AI generated post which was spread on WhatsApp thinking it was real !! Ankhe kholo WhatsApp ke uncle log 😂😂!!
— Ductar Fakir 2.0 (@Chacha_huu) September 27, 2023
We found that PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi’s viral image appears similar. It is to be noted that PM Modi’s image was created using ‘stable diffusion’ AI. To our surprise, we found another tweet in which the creator of the illusion diffusion application quoted a video tweet by a contributor, in which it can be seen how an illusion art resembling a person’s face is being created using the input.
Thanks to @multimodalart Illusion Diffusion now has HD outputs
Please try it out again 🤩 https://t.co/3hYbYyqyHz
— AP (@angrypenguinPNG) September 19, 2023
What is Stable Diffusion?
It is an AI platform where users can create descriptive images. According to the official website of the platform, users can create AI images “with shorter prompts and generate words within images.”
Thus, it is confirmed that the viral image is AI-generated, NOT real.
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