AI-generated video claims to show Delhi blastpublished at 13:40 GMT
13:40 GMT
Shruti Menon
BBC Verify senior journalist, reporting from Delhi
I’ve been reviewing multiple videos and images claiming to show Monday’s blast near the Red Fort in Delhi that killed at least eight people and injured dozens more.
I have identified both AI-generated and older images being circulated that falsely claim to be of the explosion.
One of them is a viral Instagram reel that claims to show the moment of the blast.
The video mentions the date of the incident in text with text in Hindi saying “terrorist blast in a car parked outside Delhi’s Red fort, eight people killed”.
In the first eight seconds of the video, people nearby can be seen walking towards the fireball as it happens. The rest of the video shows a car in flames.
I ran the video through Google’s Synth ID, an AI-detection tool. Its results suggested AI generation in both video and audio confirming it was artificially created.
On close observation, the video also has a watermark on the bottom right that reads Veo, which is Google’s own AI-generation tool.
The video can be misleading because it has taken authentic footage from the blast that we verified at the time and used those to remake using Veo with added explosions, flames, people and sounds.
Indian fact-checking websites have also reported the video isn’t authentic.
Delhi police have urged users not to circulate unverified material or claims as the investigations are still on.
