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By Archis Chowdhury Last Saturday, on the eve of the Bangladesh national elections, two separate videos emerged on Facebook showing independent candidates Abdullah Nahid Nigar and Beauty Begum announcing their withdrawal from the polls. Both the videos were, however, deepfakes - digitally manipulated using deep generative methods. While Nigar won in her constituency, Begum lost with a margin of less than 3,000 votes. While it maybe impossible to ascertain the affects of the deepfake video of her withdrawal on her final vote count, it sets a worrying precedent for all future elections. The year...
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By Hazel Gandhi An image of a train covered in flowers is viral online with the claim that it is from Kerala and the train was decorated on the occasion of Onam. BOOM found that the claim is fake and the image has been made using generative-AI. The Indian festival of Onam, significant to the state of Kerala and the other Malayalam-speaking population in the country is being celebrated on August 29. The claim about the train being decorated is viral in this context. A caption on X (formerly Twitter) reads, "This is the picture of a Railway Station in #Kerala specially decorated for #Onam .. Bea...
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By Srijit Das An AI-generated image of Tom Cruise and his doppelgangers has recently been shared with a false claim that it is a real photo of the Hollywood actor posing with his body doubles ahead of the release of his upcoming action film, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. American director Christopher McQuarrie's new film and the seventh part of the spy-thriller franchise Mission Impossible is all set to release in July this year. The film will witness Cruise tracking down a deadly weapon which poses a threat to the humanity. Cruise in the recently released trailer can be seen ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team A photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi purporting to show him peering through a microscope is fake and has been created using generative-AI tool Midjourney. The fake photo is the latest in a flurry of fake hyper-realistic AI-generated images created using online tools that fact-checkers worry could be used to spread disinformation. The synthetic photo, which shows the PM wearing a lab coat, was tweeted by a Twitter user claiming that the image shows the PM pretending to be a doctor and looking through a microscope incorrectly. Santosh Kumar Luthra tweeted the photo wit...
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