Fact Check: Digitally Created Video Going Viral As World’s Largest Creature In Water
Vishvas News found in its investigation that the video being circulated is not real. This is a CGI i.e. digitally created video, which is being circulated with a fake claim that it is the real scene of the world’s largest creature.
- By Vishvas News
- Updated: July 19, 2024
New Delhi, Vishvas News: A video is going viral on social media, in which a huge snake is seen eating a helicopter flying over the sea. Sharing the video as real, users are claiming that this video is of the world’s largest aquatic creature and the scene seen in the video is real.
Vishvas News found in its investigation that the viral video is not real. This is a CGI i.e. digitally created video, which is being circulated with a fake claim that it is the real scene of the world’s largest creature.
What Is In The Viral Post?
“Allah’s greatest creation lives in water,” the Facebook user wrote while sharing the viral post. View the archived version of the post here.
Vishvas News Investigation:
Starting our investigation, we first extracted key frames of the viral video and searched them on Google Lens. We did not find any video similar to this video. On searching, we found a video similar to this video uploaded on a YouTube channel named ‘thegnomonworkshop’ on 5 July 2023. According to the information given here, this is a CGI i.e. computer generated video.
Here in the video, detailed information is given about how this video has been prepared. According to the information given , this video is a part of a workshop related to FX (Visual Effects). However, here in the original CGI video, not the helicopter, but the snake can be seen eating the bird.
We also found the original CGI video uploaded on the website of ‘thegnomonworkshop’. According to the information given here , VFX workshop using Howdy and Nuke with Miguel Perez Senent.
In the frames given below, it can be clearly seen that ‘thegnomonworkshop’ and the viral video are the same.
However, the helicopter has been added to the original CGI video by editing it. Taking the investigation further, we searched for news about Miguel Perez Senent. According to the information given on the IMDb website, Senent has provided visual effects in films like Avengers Infinity War (2018) and Avatar 2022.
We contacted ‘thegnomonworkshop’ via email to confirm the viral video. Daniel Hale replied to our email and said, “We cannot say for sure how the video was created. Someone may have copied Miguel Perez Cenet from our library and workshop or made changes to the video or used AI, but it is clear that this video is taken from the original CGI video.”
We contacted our partner DAU (an MCA initiative) regarding the video. They checked the video on TrueMedia Deepfake Detector, which said that the video was not AI-generated. Now it was time to do social scanning of the Facebook user who shared the fake post. We found that the user is from Kashmir.
Conclusion: Vishvas News found in its investigation that the video being circulated is not real. This is a CGI i.e. digitally created video, which is being circulated with a fake claim that it is the real scene of the world’s largest creature.