{"id":308094,"date":"2025-12-06T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=308094"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:20:38","slug":"asaduddin-owaisi-performing-aarti-of-hanuman-viral-video-is-ai-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/asaduddin-owaisi-performing-aarti-of-hanuman-viral-video-is-ai-generated\/","title":{"rendered":"Asaduddin Owaisi performing aarti of Hanuman? Viral video is AI-generated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video is viral on social media showing AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi performing an aarti in front of an idol of Hanuman.<\/p>\n<p>X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShefVaidya\/status\/1996789395467420070?t=TWTBAai3_UU3GG4ByNPSnQ&amp;s=08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shefali Vaidya<\/a> shared the viral video on December 5. At the time of this article being written, the post has managed to accumulate more than 60,000 views, and has been re-shared more than 500 times. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/WwGca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Such a beautiful display of Al Taquia! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1tthdatJ7\">pic.twitter.com\/L1tthdatJ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shefali Vaidya. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@ShefVaidya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShefVaidya\/status\/1996789395467420070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video was posted by X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/smitadeshmukh\/status\/1996623727963132056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smita Deshmukh,<\/a> garnering more than 30,000 views. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/RZL8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u091c\u092f \u0939\u0928\u0941\u092e\u093e\u0928 \u091c\u094d\u091e\u093e\u0928 \u0917\u0941\u0928 \u0938\u093e\u0917\u0930<br \/>\n\u091c\u092f \u0915\u092a\u0940\u0938 \u0924\u093f\u0939\u0941\u0902 \u0932\u094b\u0915 \u0909\u091c\u093e\u0917\u0930\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hZPkfrDiZo\">pic.twitter.com\/hZPkfrDiZo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Smita Deshmukh\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@smitadeshmukh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smitadeshmukh\/status\/1996623727963132056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>X user Hindutva Knight (@HPhobiaWatch), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=HPhobiaWatch+site%3Aaltnews.in&amp;sca_esv=a64a9f25eb91a75d&amp;rlz=1C1UEAD_enIN1022IN1022&amp;ei=SGY0aYu1IZe0vr0PgoaSeA&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiL-eHtvKmRAxUXmq8BHQKDBA8Q4dUDCBE&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=HPhobiaWatch+site%3Aaltnews.in&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHEhQaG9iaWFXYXRjaCBzaXRlOmFsdG5ld3MuaW5IrkJQAFiRQHACeAGQAQCYAZQCoAGHLqoBBjAuMjEuObgBA8gBAPgBAZgCFaAC5h_CAhAQABiABBiRAhiKBRhGGPkBwgILEAAYgAQYkQIYigXCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARiKBcICBRAuGIAEwgIREAAYgAQYsQMYgwEYigUYjQbCAioQABiABBiRAhiKBRhGGPkBGJcFGIwFGN0EGEYY-QEY9AMY9QMY9gPYAQHCAgoQABiABBhDGIoFwgIaEC4YgAQYsQMYgwEYxwEYigUYjQYYjgUYrwHCAhQQLhiABBixAxiDARjHARiOBRivAcICBRAAGIAEwgILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwHCAhQQLhiABBiRAhjHARiKBRiOBRivAcICCxAuGIAEGJECGIoFwgIjEC4YgAQYkQIYxwEYigUYjgUYrwEYlwUY3AQY3gQY4ATYAQHCAgwQLhiABBixAxgKGAvCAgwQABiABBixAxgKGAvCAgkQABiABBgKGAvCAhsQLhiABBixAxgKGAsYlwUY3AQY3gQY4ATYAQHCAggQABiABBjHA8ICCBAAGIAEGKIEwgIFEAAY7wXCAgUQIRigAZgDALoGBggBEAEYE5IHBjIuNy4xMqAH7YUBsgcGMC43LjEyuAfWH8IHBzEuOS45LjLIB1GACAA&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shares hateful content<\/a> and communal propaganda on a regular basis, amplified it. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/x3K5C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">WTH\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mzhhxG8xfW\">pic.twitter.com\/mzhhxG8xfW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hindutva Knight (@HPhobiaWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HPhobiaWatch\/status\/1996825753732915405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The viral video was circulated by several users, including (<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Amrita_2121\/status\/1996583351189131703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Amrita_2121<\/a>), (<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrJaiNathSingh3\/status\/1996780914848989387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DrJaiNathSingh3<\/a>), (<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kapil_Jyani_\/status\/1996592585222259121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Kapil_Jyani_<\/a>), (<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ManojSr60583090\/status\/1996540698162774294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManojSr60583090<\/a>) <\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">and others. <\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Archives: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Y3gzb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/qx8M0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HOpDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ecU6x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Screenshots below:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-308094 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/asaduddin-owaisi-performing-aarti-of-hanuman-viral-video-is-ai-generated\/screenshot_146-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_146.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_146.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_146-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_146-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/asaduddin-owaisi-performing-aarti-of-hanuman-viral-video-is-ai-generated\/screenshot_145-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_145.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_145.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_145-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_145-768x747.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/asaduddin-owaisi-performing-aarti-of-hanuman-viral-video-is-ai-generated\/screenshot_144-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_144.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_144.jpg 798w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_144-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_144-768x728.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/asaduddin-owaisi-performing-aarti-of-hanuman-viral-video-is-ai-generated\/screenshot_148\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_148.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_148.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_148-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>\u00a0Fact Check<\/h4>\n<p>To verify the viral claim, first we ran relevant keyword searches to see if there were any reports on Owaisi performing an &#8216;aarti&#8217;<em>. <\/em>We could not find any.<\/p>\n<p>On closer look, we noticed several elements in the video that suggest it is AI generated.<\/p>\n<p>First, the logo of Google Gemini is visible at the bottom right corner (circled below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-181121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-181121-1.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-181121-1-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, a signboard is visible in the first few frames of the video, where the Hindi spelling of &#8216;Hanuman Mandir&#8217; is distorted. Such garbled words are a a typical feature of AI generated images or videos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-182117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-182117.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-182117-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, when the camera angle lifts, the orientation of the shot changes inexplicably:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-183405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-183405.jpg 956w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-183405-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-06-183405-768x806.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fourthly, there is no movement in the people standing around Owaisi, not even a change of expression.<\/p>\n<p>We also ran the video through <a href=\"https:\/\/hivemoderation.com\/ai-generated-content-detection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIVE\u2019s AI detection tool<\/a>. According to this, there is a 99% likelihood that the viral video contains AI-generated material.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-308097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_142.jpg 953w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_142-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_142-768x616.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the viral video which is doing the rounds on social media showing AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi performing an aarti is AI-generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video is viral on social media showing AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi performing an aarti in front of an idol of Hanuman. X user Shefali Vaidya shared the viral video on December 5. At the time of this article being written, the post has managed to accumulate more than 60,000 views, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":308117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[728],"class_list":["post-308094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/FI-template-Prantik-15.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308094"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308123,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308094\/revisions\/308123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308094"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=308094"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=308094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}