Fact Check: AI Audio Falsely Shared As Amitabh Bachchan's Opinion On Politics
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In the video, we can hear a man who sounds like Amitabh Bachchan making political remarks.
A post (here, here, and here) featuring a video allegedly released by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan is doing its rounds on social media. It is being claimed that Amitabh Bachchan has finally broken his silence and made a video to open people's eyes. In the video, we can hear a man who sounds like Amitabh Bachchan making political remarks. We fact-check this claim through this article. Claim: Video of Amitabh Bachchan expressing his thoughts on the current political situation in India.
Fact: Amitabh Bachchan has not released such a video. This video features a voice-over resembling Amitabh Bachchan's voice, generated using Artificial Intelligence. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed a keyword search on the internet to check if Amitabh Bachchan had made or posted this video. After going through all his official social media accounts (here, here, and here), we did not find the viral video on any of them. Also, we did not find any news reports about Amitabh Bachchan making such a statement.
