A set of pictures showing Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya with Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif is making the rounds on social media.
The caption with the picture reads: “Hardik Pandya and Katrina Kaif 🇮🇳😘😍🔥”
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked these images, and found them to be AI-generated.
A thorough search across news reports and credible sources yielded no evidence of Hardik and Katrina posing for such pictures. Neither of them has shared these images on their official social media handles.
While the images may appear realistic at first glance, a closer look reveals the tell-tale signs of AI manipulation — unnatural facial expressions, inconsistent lighting, blurred texture blending in the background, and subtle distortions.
Running the images through Hive Moderation, an AI detection tool, NewsMobile confirmed that they were digitally altered.
Thus, we can conclusively say that the viral images of Hardik Pandya with Katrina Kaif are digitally altered.
