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Truth or Fake - Viral Putin, Modi and Xi selfie at BRICS summit is AI-generated

Summary by France24
A viral selfie allegedly showing Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and other leaders together at the BRICS summit in New Delhi is AI-generated. A SynthID watermark shows it was created using OpenAI tools, while several leaders pictured, including Brazil’s Lula and Turkey’s Erdogan, did not attend. Another AI selfie features former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in 2024. Both images were widely shared online, including by offic…

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Screenshot showing that the image has SynthID's watermarkAlthough the image has been broadcast by the Twitter account (now X) of the Russian Embassy in South Africa, it does not appear among the photographs uploaded to the Kremlin's official page about this event.Kremlin's image gallery of the BRICS meeting in New DelhiOn the other hand, the image itself shows indications that reveal its synthetic origin: the background flags that should represe…

A viral selfie allegedly taken at the BRICS summit in New Delhi by Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out to be a fake created by AI. For details, read ᐅ TSN.ua (news 1+1)

Explore the truth behind the viral AI-generated image from the Brics 2026 summit featuring world leaders, including Narendra Modi, in a fake selfie.

·Kozhikode, India
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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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