A video showing a monkey supposedly riding a motorcycle through a vegetable market is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim it captures a real incident. In the clip, the monkey can be seen approaching a parked bike with the key still in the ignition, hopping on, starting the vehicle, and even riding it briefly before crashing into a bystander.
The above post can be seen here. (Archive)
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim and found it to be Misleading.
Running the video keyframes through Reverse Image Search, the NM team identifies multiple social media handles sharing the same video with identical claims.
Analysing the video closely, we found several inconsistencies in the visuals, including unnatural camera movements, moments where people’s limbs appeared blurred or distorted, irregular fruit arrangements that shifted between frames, and the clearly unrealistic visual of a monkey confidently riding a bike.
Additionally, the AI content detection tool, Hive Moderation, has reported that 99.9% of the video is AI-generated.
Hence, it is clear that the video, showing a monkey riding a bike, is AI-generated.
