Claim: A couple of videos showing a giant carrot and a huge pineapple grown on farms in Nuwara Eliya and Gampaha.
Fact: The videos are AI-generated.
Two videos have been widely circulated on Facebook and TikTok as “true” footage from Sri Lanka, purportedly showing farmers proudly displaying a giant carrot and a gigantic pineapple that were grown on their farms in Nuwara Eliya and Gampaha.
These videos can be found here, here, here, here, and here.
Fact Check/Verification
Newschecker observed that the two videos depicted the men walking in a slow manner, even as the movements and details seemed blurry, suggesting that the visuals may be AI-generated. We also checked for “Gampaha Estate” and “Nuwara Eliya Farms”, as seen on the signboards in the viral video, which did not yield any results.
We then ran the videos past a couple of AI content-detection tools, Hive Moderation and WasItAI, which yielded the following results:
Video Showing Giant Carrot
Hive Moderation: 77.2% likely to contain AI-generated deepfake content.
WasItAI: Likely to be generated by AI
Video Showing Giant Pineapple
Hive Moderation: 90.4% likely to contain AI-generated deepfake content.
WasItAI: Likely to be generated by AI.
Conclusion
AI-generated videos of a giant pineapple and a monster carrot found on farms in Sri Lanka were shared as real footage.
Result: Altered Photo/Video
Our Sources
Hive Moderation tool
WasItAI tool
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