Did a tiger really spare a sleeping man in India? What we know about viral video
The footage shows a large tiger calmly approaching a man sleeping outside a shuttered shop, sniffing him, and walking away without harm. Its seemingly real-life danger and the man's unflinching calm drew widespread attention. The clip was reshared by verified accounts, many mistaking the AI-generated tiger for a lion, with captions like: 'Even lion knows the power of desi," and 'Indian man survives after a Lion sniffs him and leaves him alone, thats crazy."
One widely circulated post warned, 'This video showing a lion sniffing human has around 7 million views. This is AI-generated video. Imagine how AI can be used to confuse people. And now imagine AI is still at nascent stage!!'
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Fact-checkers and visual experts later debunked the clip, citing telltale signs of AI generation, including inconsistent lighting, unnatural shadows, texture glitches, and blending issues between the animal and its surroundings.
Parveen Kaswan, IFS officer, shared the video with the caption: 'This video showing a lion sniffing a human has around 7 million views. This is an AI-generated video. Imagine how AI can be used to confuse people. And now imagine AI is still at a nascent stage!!'
Many took to the comments to react. A user wrote, 'Every AI generated video should have a mandatory watermark that cannot be removed.'
Another added, 'The giveaway was the shop names, which are in Hindi. The only place where you can see lions roaming around like this is in Gujarat, and most of the shops there have their names written in Gujarati.'
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