Images showing Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya and Bollywood actress Ananya Panday getting married have gone viral on social media. Many users claim it to be a real wedding ceremony.
A Facebook user posted the images with a caption: Hardik Pandya and Ananya Pandey getting married.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim, and found it to be false.
Searching with relevant keywords on Google, the NM team could not find any credible news reports or official confirmations regarding their marriage ceremony. The official social media accounts of Hardik and Ananya have also not carried any such announcement.
A closer scrutiny of the viral images revealed several inconsistencies, including unnatural smooth skin textures and artificial-looking hands. These are common signs of digital creation of images.Â
Additionally, running the images through AI detection tools — Hive Moderation, Verifye — NewsMobile confirmed that the images were digitally created.
Thus, we can conclusively say that the images claiming to show Hardik and Ananya getting married are AI-generated.
