Fact-Check: AI-Generated Video of Vendor Making Burgers With His Feet Goes Viral

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A video of a man making burgers with his feet is being shared on the internet, claiming to show an Indian street vendor. The people in the video can be heard speaking in Hindi. The video, shared on X by user @MarioNawfal, garnered over one million views. An archived version of this claim can be found here. (Archived versions of similar claims can be found here, here, and here)Is it true?: No, the video is an AI-generated video and does not show real footage of a street vendor cooking with his feet. Video of Ex-R&AW Chief Vikram Sood Praising Pak’s Geopolitical Strategy Is Fake!How did we find out?: We ran a reverse image search on the video and couldn't find any credible sources sharing it. Following this, we ran the video through Hive Moderation, an AI-detection tool, which flagged the video as more than 97 percent likely to be AI-generated.Here is the result from Hive Moderation.While observing the video, we noticed that the man's lip movements look unnatural, an indicator of AI. The lip movements are unnaturalWe also noticed the tool that the man is using to cook, along with the burger, unnaturally slides off on its own in the video. The burger slides off unnaturally. Conclusion: The video is a deepfake and does not show real footage of an Indian street vendor cooking with his feet. Old, Unrelated Video From J&K Shared As One from BSF Firing Near Tripura Border(Not convinced of a post or information you came across online and want it verified? Send us the details on WhatsApp at 9540511818 , or e-mail it to us at webqoof@thequint.com and we'll fact-check it for you. You can also read all our fact-checked stories here.)