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Fact check: Viral Evin prison blast video is likely AI fake
By Rachel Baig
A video went viral this week, allegedly showing the footage of a surveillance camera filming the entrance to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran being destroyed by an explosion. According to Israel, it had fired on the prison; Iran’s judiciary later confirmed the attack.
The prison is known for reports of human rights violations against political prisoners of the Iranian regime...
Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in digital forensics, also pointed out the inconsistencies in the video shared by Saar in a post on LinkedIn on Tuesday.
He wrote: “Unfortunately, the video is heavily compressed, making forensic analysis challenging. […] It seems more likely that an AI-powered image-to-video generator was used with this image as the source...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
