Amid renewed political controversy surrounding fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya’s recent podcast appearance with YouTuber Raj Shamani, a photo purportedly showing Congress leader Supriya Shrinet sitting with Mallya is doing the rounds on social media. In the podcast, Mallya claimed he had informed former finance minister Arun Jaitley before leaving for London, prompting Congress leaders to criticise BJP.
Here’s the link to the viral post. (Archive)
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be MISLEADING.
A closer look reveals the word “Grok” on the bottom right corner of the image — an indication that it may have been generated using the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI company.
Putting the photo through AI detection tools — Hive Moderation and Sightengine — for further verification, it was confirmed that the image was artificially generated by 99%. Additionally, no credible news outlet has reported any meeting between Shrinet and Mallya, nor has the image appeared in any journalistic context.
Thus, we can conclusively say that the viral image of Supriya Shrinet sitting with vijay Mallya is not real but AI-generated.
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