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Fact Check: Here is why this big cat DID NOT disturb a sleeping man
A video being shared like wildfire on social media right now shows a lion roaming around a man asleep on a quiet street at night. The animal sniffs him, and then, remarkably, leaves without causing any harm to the person. Those sharing the video called it a miracle. Some also wondered why it chose not to attack.
advertisementThey also claimed that the video was from India. A Facebook user captioned the video as: 'Miracle in India: Sleeping Man Survives Close Encounter with Lion.'
India Today Fact Check, however, found that the video is not of a real incident but PROBEWhile sharing the video, an X user credited it to a YouTube channel named 'The world of beasts'. We found the video on the channel uploaded on June 6. The description of the video in Portuguese translates to, 'Lion finds man sleeping on the street in Gujarat!' But it was clearly mentioned in the description that the video was either altered or synthetic.
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Going through the channel, we found that it shares only AI-generated videos of animals. The 'About' section of the channel also notes that these videos are created using from this, there are also some visual inconsistencies in the video which show that it is synthetic. Like, the text written on the boards of the closed shops is gibberish. We tried to translate it using Google Lens, but it didn't work the sleeping posture of the man appears abnormal. The man can be seen lying on his stomach, but his legs are not aligned with the upper part of his body.
We also checked the video using Google's SynthID Detector which helps in determining if an image or video was created using Google AI or not. The detector confirmed to us that the video was made with Google AI.
Therefore, we concluded that the video is not real but AI-generated.
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