Following the highly watched bout between former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and YouTuber-turned-fighter Jake Paul at AT&T Stadium in Texas, a picture of Tyson with a Palestinian flag draped over his shoulders has been widely circulating on social media.
The image is being shared with a caption: “Mike Tyson poses with the Palestinian flag before his historic fight tomorrow.”
The above post can be seen here (archive). More such posts can be seen here, here and here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the image, and found it to be AI-generated.
Running the Reverse Image Search, our team found no results from reliable news sources. Had Tyson draped a Palestinian flag, it would have got wide coverage by large-scale media.
Although the picture initially appeared authentic, a closer inspection revealed several discrepancies, such as the absence of a tattoo on Tyson’s chest that honours his late daughter Exodus. This missing detail suggests that the image was probably created using Artificial Intelligence.
Moreover, putting the picture through the AI-detection tool — TrueMedia, it was revealed that the picture in question is AI-generated.
So in conclusion, we can say that the image of Mike Tyson with a Palestinian flag draped over his shoulders is AI-generated.
