Lighthouse Journalism came across a video being widely shared on social media platforms. The video claimed to show a strange phenomenon in the Mediterranean Sea. The post further claimed that the water in the sea was boiling and strange gaping holes are forming on the surface.
During the investigation, we found that the video is AI-generated and not real.
Claim:
X user Sahar Emami shared the viral video.
Other users are also sharing the same video.
Investigation:
We started the investigation of the video by uploading it to the InVid tool and extracting keyframes from the same. We then ran a reverse image search on the keyframes.
We found the video uploaded on a TikTok profile, ‘dr.vea’. The creator had labeled the video as ‘AI-generated’.
We checked the profile and found that the user posted AI-generated content.
We then ran the video through an AI detector. The results said, “The video is likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content”.
Conclusion: The viral video allegedly showing a strange phenomenon in the Mediterranean Sea, such as water in the sea boiling and strange, gaping holes forming on the surface, is AI-generated. The viral video is fake.
