{"id":39110,"date":"2025-01-25T03:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=39110"},"modified":"2025-01-25T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:09:10","slug":"fact-check-ai-generated-images-of-former-pm-indira-gandhis-attire-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=39110","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: AI-Generated Images Of Former PM Indira Gandhi&#8217;s Attire Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of four pictures, allegedly showing former Prime Minister <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/opinion\/rise-of-indira-gandhi-as-congress-party-president-in-1959-article-365-indian-national-congress\" rel=\"nofollow,noindex\" target=\"_blank\">Indira Gandhi <\/a>in provocative attire, has gone viral on social media, claiming to be real images.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users have mentioned the Bharatiya Janata Party (<a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/webqoof\/bjp-shared-video-targeting-aap-government-bad-conditions-of-road-viral-claim-fact-check\" rel=\"nofollow,noindex\" target=\"_blank\">BJP<\/a>) Member of Parliament and actor-director <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/entertainment\/movie-reviews\/emergency-kangana-ranaut-full-film-review-indira-gandhi-biopic-indian-emergency\" rel=\"nofollow,noindex\" target=\"_blank\">Kangana Ranaut <\/a>while posting images on X, asking why she didn&#8217;t portray this aspect of the former PM in her recently launched film, &#8220;Emergency,&#8221; a biographical on Gandhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The claim<\/strong>: &#8220;I trust @KanganaTeam highlighted the prostitution aspect of Indira Gandhi in her propaganda film. How she amused KGB agents from Russia and the Soviet Union in bed. Everything is referenced in a book titled &#8220;The Mitrokhin- The KGB in the world(sic).&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-01\/14ibiqn8_fact_625x300_25_January_25.jpeg\" title=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(Archives of similar claims can be found <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/archive\/77uZh\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/archive\/no12W\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the claim true?<\/strong>: No, the claim is false.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>These images are generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What we found<\/strong>: At first, we went through the book mentioned in the claim, &#8220;The Mitrokhin Archive II The KGB in the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We downloaded the book from a free E-library and went through the portions about India. The book accounts experiences of Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin, a former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) archivist who went to the United Kingdom after the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/li>\n<li>In Chapter 17, titled, &#8220;The Special Relationship with India. Part 1: The Supremacy of the Indian National Congress,&#8221; it mentioned Russia and India relations along with former Russian security agency KGB influence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-01\/dfmln33o_fc_625x300_25_January_25.jpeg\" title=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is a preview from the book.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: The Mitrokhin Archive II The KGB in the World\/Screenshot)\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The portion about India spans across two chapters however, mentions nothing about Mrs Gandhi&#8217;s personal relationship with the Russians.<\/li>\n<li>In the index section, there is a portion for the illustrations. In that section, it shows an image of a portrait of Mrs Gandhi with two men posing alongside.<\/li>\n<li>It noted, &#8220;An episode in the prolonged charm offensive against Indira Gandhi. Viktor Cherkashin of the New Delhi residency (second from the right) at the presentation of a portrait of Mrs Gandhi by the Soviet artist Ilya Glazunov (next to Cherkashin).&#8221; (sic.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-01\/b4rgdopo_fc_625x300_25_January_25.jpeg\" title=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is preview of the portrait.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: The Mitrokhin Archive II The KGB in the World\/Screenshot)\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None of the viral images were featured in this book.<\/li>\n<li>We ran a Google reverse image on some of them and found that they were uploaded on <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/hersofterside\/gallery\/87531745\/political-ladies\" target=\"_blank\">Deviant Art<\/a>, a digital social platform for artists and art lovers where users submit thousands of unique artworks daily, ranging from paintings and sculptures to digital creations, pixel art, movies, and anime.<\/li>\n<li>A user named &#8220;HerSofterSide&#8221; uploaded these images of Mrs Gandhi in May 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-01\/5d37mju_fc_625x300_25_January_25.jpeg\" title=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is a preview of the user&#8217;s profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Source: Deviant Art)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AI-dectection websites: We ran the image on two AI-detection websites such as Hive Moderation and Sightengine AI. Both platforms declared all images as AI-generated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-01\/jslmmj9g_fc_625x300_25_January_25.jpeg\" title=\"Latest and Breaking News on NDTV\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: AI-generated images of former PM Indira Gandhi showing her in a provocative manner have gone viral as real.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This story was originally published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/news\/webqoof\/ai-generated-images-of-indira-gandhi-shared-as-her-unseen-images-fact-check#read-more%23read-more%23read-more\" rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Quint<\/a>, and republished by NDTV as part of the Shakti Collective)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200bA collection of four pictures, allegedly showing former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, has gone viral on social media, claiming to be real images.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of four pictures, allegedly showing former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in provocative attire, has gone viral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":39111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7.jpeg",1250,546,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7-300x131.jpeg",300,131,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7-768x335.jpeg",640,279,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7-1024x447.jpeg",640,279,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7.jpeg",1250,546,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7.jpeg",1250,546,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7-825x546.jpeg",825,546,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1gmglqgo_indira_625x300_25_January_25-Fxu2L7-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}