Does this strange sea animal represent a sea cow as claimed? Fact Check

Claim: Video shows a strange sea animal with cow as head and rest of the body resembling a Seal.

Conclusion: The claim is false. The video is AI generated.

Rating: Totally False —

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Many social media users have posted videos of strange sea animal with cow as head and rest of the body resembles Seal. Digiteye India team received a request on Whatsapp tipline with a caption in Hindi as shown below:

“समुद्री गाय आपने लोगो ने देखी हैं मैने तो पहली बार देखी हैं जय गऊ मां” [Translated the post reads: “Have you seen sea cows? I have seen it for the first time ,,Jai cow mother.”]

Few videos can be seen here:

FACT-CHECK

When Digiteye India Team took few images from the video and checked on Google Reverse Image Search, the results gave links to many such videos posted with different captions.

Firstly, looking at the video one can see that the animal eyes are not moving at all, and on a closer look, the man walking behind the cow walks with 2 legs and suddenly an extra shoe/leg appears, indicating the known problem with the AI-generated images.

Secondly, when we checked the image in AI image detector tool  “Is it AI” which checks if the image is AI generated or Human generated, the output was “This image is highly likely to be AI generated” as seen below:

When checked another image same output was given. See below:

 

AI image generators utilise trained artificial neural networks to create images from scratch. These generators have the capacity to create original, realistic visuals based on textual input provided in natural language.

AI-generated images are getting better over a period, but there are still some tell-tale signs you can decipher.

1. Hands and limbs.
2. Words. …
3. Hair. …
4. Symmetry. …
5. Textures. …
6. Geometry. …
7. Consistency. ..

Human generated images, on the contrary, are real images created by humans utilizing photos, text, graphic among others with no distortion as seen in AI-generated images. Moreover, sea cows, scientifically known as the Sirenia or sirenians, are a species of aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. They have nothing to do with the common perception of a cow we see daily.

Hence, the above claim in the image about a sea cow is false.

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