Ai-Generated Video Falsely Shared as Real Clip of Elephant Being Rescued by a Crane

Some parts of the excavator, such as the cylinder and the bucket, also seem to vary through the video.

News reports: We ran a keyword search with the term ‘elephant rescued from cliff’, but it did not return any credible articles about such an incident.

The source: We divided the video into multiple keyframes using InVID, a video verification extension on Google Chrome, and ran a reverse image search on one of them.

It led us to a YouTube video on a channel called ‘AThing Inside’, which had shared it on 2 October 2024.

Is it AI?: We ran the video through Hive AI’s tool, which found that there was a 99.7 percent likelihood of the video contained AI-generated content.

Conclusion: The video does not show a real rescue operation, it is an AI-generated video.

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