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      Generative AI Photo Of Island Resembling PM Modi's Face Peddled As Real

      BOOM found that the image was generated using Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative-AI service.

      By - Srijit Das |
      Published -  27 Sept 2023 6:29 PM IST
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      Generative AI Photo Of Island Resembling PM Modis Face Peddled As Real

      A photograph showing trees on an island resembling an outline of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face is circulating widely on social media with a false claim that a French tourist took the image in Gokarna, Karnataka.

      BOOM found that the image was created using Stable Diffusion, a generative AI software that is capable of making images with text prompts.

      The viral image is circulating with a caption that claims, "This was clicked in Gokarna by a french tourist. A message to the entire planet earth from mother nature. Just zoom and see. Marvelous. The Universal Consciousness has a way to send messages. Sairam." (sic.)


      Click here to view the post.


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      Also Read:Was PM Modi Photographed With A Man Posing As Two Artisans? A FactCheck

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      BOOM ran a reverse image search on the image and found an X (formerly Twitter) user named Madhav Kohli posted the same photo.

      Kohli uploaded the photo on September 23, 2023, with a cryptic caption saying, "Do you see him too?"

      Do you see him too? pic.twitter.com/QjJzO4fBbF

      — Madhav Kohli (@mvdhav) September 23, 2023

      Click here to view the post.

      Responding to another user's inquiry about the application he used for creating the image, Kohli replied 'Stable Diffusion'.

      Stable diffusion

      — Madhav Kohli (@mvdhav) September 23, 2023

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      As per Forbes, "Stable Diffusion is a diffusion model, meaning it learns to generate images by gradually removing noise from a very noisy image. This process is called "reverse diffusion," based on math inspired by the way that a physical matter diffuses into a liquid or gas."

      We found Madhav Kohli's verified Instagram handle where the same photo was uploaded along with other AI generated images.

      Kohli, in his bio, described himself as the "Maker of things".

      View this post on Instagram

      A post shared by madhav kohli (@mvdhav)

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      BOOM reached out to Kohli for further details about the picture. Kohli confirmed that the image was made using generative AI and has not been taken by a French tourist in Karnataka's Gokarna as claimed.

      When BOOM asked Kohli about the prompts used to create this image, he said, "I made the image using an AI software called Stable Diffusion. There’s not much to do with prompting in this one since it’s made with a different technology to leverage an image based on a set of prompts that are only concerned with the background and not particularly the subject matter (in this case PM Modi’s portrait)."

      Also Read:Cropped Video Peddled As PM Modi Criticising Former BJP Chhattisgarh Govt


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      Claim :   This photo showing coconut trees resembling PM Modi's face was clicked by a French tourist in Karnataka's Gokarna.
      Claimed By :  Social Media Users
      Fact Check :  False
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