A picture of billionaire Elon Musk posing with a bald girl is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim that she is his daughter who survived cancer after a five-year battle.
The picture caption reads: “My daughter has been battling cancer for five years, and today she is cancer-free! Please send her some love.❤️😭”
The above post can be seen here (archive)
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked these pictures, and found them to be AI-generated.
A thorough search yielded no credible sources or evidence connecting these images to any real-life event. Elon Musk has not shared or acknowledged this picture or news about any of his children suffering from cancer on his official social media accounts.
While the picture appears convincing at first glance, a closer look uncovers signs of AI generation — unnatural facial expressions, inconsistent lighting, awkward texture blending in the background, and subtle distortions.
The image carries a ‘Goak’ watermark — linked to a generative AI platform by xAI — further confirming its artificial origin.
To further verify our findings, we ran the images through AI detection tools — Verifye and Hive Moderation — confirming that the images were digitally manipulated.
So in conclusion, we can say that the picture in question is absolutely misleading.
