Image Showing PM Modi Dressed Up at an Event Is Not Real but AI-Generated!

The creator of this image confirmed to The Quint that he made this image of PM Modi using an AI tool, Midjourney.

Fact-check: This photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Met Gala event is an AI-generated image.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A photo showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi dressed up in an extravagant costume is going viral on social media as a real image.

An archive can be seen here.

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(Archives of similar claims can be seen here and here.)

The image is not real: This image was made by a digital creator using using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tool, Midjourney.

The creator made several similar images of Indian politicians dressed up for Met Gala, a fashion event.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on the picture and came across a tweet from 5 April.

• The tweet stated that this photo of Modi is AI-generated.

• It also carried a watermark with the text 'Sahid' on the image.

This image was digitally creator using Midjourney tool.

(Source: Altered by The Quint)

• Taking a cue from this, we looked for the profile on Instagram and found a profile with the username 'sahixd'.

• The bio of the profile mentioned that he was a "digital creator" who regularly posted AI-generated images.

• We found a post with the caption, "Artificial intelligence envisions politicians attending the Met Gala.", shared on 3 April.

• The post carried AI-generated images of several politicians including former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, United States President Joe Biden, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, and Modi.

• The caption carried hashtags about the images being AI-generated image using Midjourney, an AI tool.

The post can be seen here.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

We also reached out to the creator of this image, Sahid, who confirmed to us that he made this image of Modi at the Met Gala event using AI-based tool, Midjourney.

We found several AI-generated images of Modi shared on this account which can be found here, here and here.

In the past, The Quint debunked another claim about an AI-generated image made by the same digital creator which showed Modi using a telescope incorrectly. The story can be read here.

Conclusion: This photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Met Gala event is AI-generated.

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