Fact Check: It's Not Rahul Gandhi Swearing In As PM In This Viral Audio Clip. The Voice Is AI-Generated 

Fact Check: After running the audio through two different AI detection tools, it was found that the clip played an AI-generated voice clone.  

Fact Check: Screenshot of a post falsely showing Rahul Gandhi swearing in as PM

Fact Check: An AI-generated voice clone of Rahul Gandhi has been circulating online, where he is heard swearing in as the Prime Minister of India. The clip has been shared by Congress supporters with music and a video montage with shots of the Red Fort in Delhi. AI detection tools have confirmed that the audio is an AI voice clone. The video has gone viral ahead of the June 4 Lok Sabha election results announcement, amid an increase in political deepfakes circulating on the internet.

The clip was viral on social media, with users sharing it with a caption that read, "The day is soon… on June 4… The Prime Minister will be Rahul Gandhi…" An archived version of such a post can be viewed here.

June 4 refers to the day of counting for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, when the results for elections is expected to be announced.

BOOM downloaded the video, and separated the audio file to run it through two different AI detection tools, and found it to be an AI voice clone. 

We first ran the audio clip through Itisaar, a deepfake analysis tool created by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. The tool confirmed that the audio has been AI generated.

We also tested the audio clip through another deepfake detection tool contrails.ai, which further confirmed that the audio clip has been generated using AI voice cloning. The report generated by contrails.ai stated that the technique used in creating the audio was "very cheap AI audio clone mixed with loud BG music".

With the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024, India has seen an uptick in political deepfakes on the internet. BOOM has earlier fact-checked several videos of celebrities manipulated using AI to falsely attribute a political message.

Last week, we also fact-checked an AI voice clone of Congress leader Kamal Nath, where he can be heard promising land to Muslims for the construction of mosque, and the reinstatement of Article 370.

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