After flash floodings and landslides triggered by torrential rain killed loads in northern India, social media users shared a clip falsely claiming it shows the calamity in the state of Uttar Pradesh. However there are no main records of flooding in the location in very early July and the video was made with AI.
“Rain in Uttar Pradesh immersed numerous residences,” reads the Instagram article released on July 4, 2025
It likewise shares a clip that shows up to reveal a group of people on the roof of a structure and buffaloes walking in floodwater, with Hindi-language message on the clip mostly repeating the false claim.
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The blog posts emerged as downpour struck Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand– two states that neighbor Uttar Pradesh– in June and July, killing at the very least 69 people ( archived link
Floodings later impacted Uttar Pradesh in August, displacing greater than 11, 000 people and damaging over 300 homes( archived link
India’s yearly downpour period from June to September offers respite from the extreme summertime warmth and is critical for restoring water supplies, but likewise brings prevalent fatality and destruction.
The incorrect clip likewise spread on Facebook and X , and some customers show up to think the clip was recorded in Uttar Pradesh.
One individual created,”Nobody can run away the intense form of nature.”
“Nature is angry,”an additional commented.
But there are no main reports of flooding in Uttar Pradesh in very early July and the video clip is AI-generated.
A reverse picture search brought about more incorrect messages, but Google’s”Around this image”function determined the video as having been made with AI.
The ability to spot AI-generated photos is based on Google’s SynthID modern technology, which was released by its DeepMind AI lab in 2023
Numerous clear aesthetic inconsistencies can additionally be seen in the clip– telltale signs that it was made with AI.
An individual in white clothing resting on the roofing system at the beginning of the video clip disappears later on, while one more male not visible at the start shows up later on in the video clip.
Wooden”charpoy”beds additionally seem at the very same elevation as buffaloes, when actually they would certainly be lower.
Aesthetic incongruities of the incorrect video clip highlighted by AFP
A reverse image search has likewise disclosed the video was initially uploaded on July 3 to a TikTok account, which releases other clips with similar visual variances ( archived link
AFP has actually debunked various other false cases sharing fabricated content developed with AI below
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