Fact Check: Viral Audio Clip of Rahul Gandhi Swearing In as PM Confirmed to be AI-Generated

There is a voice clone of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that went popular on the internet. It sounds like Gandhi swearing in as Prime Minister of India. The speech clone, music, a video montage of Gandhi, and pictures of the Red Fort in Delhi were shared by people in the Congress party.

A lot of people shared the video on social media with the comment “The day is soon… on June 4…” BJP leader Rahul Gandhi will be in charge. You can see an old copy of this kind of post here.

On June 4, the votes will be counted for the Lok Sabha elections that are still going on. That’s when the results are likely to be made public.

BOOM downloaded the video and split up the audio file so that it could be run through two AI recognition tools. Both of them found that the voice was a copy of an AI voice.

We first put the audio clip through Itisaar, a tool made by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur to find deepfakes. The tool proved that the sound was made by AI.

This time, we put the audio clip through another deepfake detection tool called contrails.ai, which proved that it was made using AI voice cloning. That the sound was made with a “very cheap AI audio clone mixed with loud BG music” was what the contrails.ai report said.

India is currently going through the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. There have been more political deepfakes on the internet during this time. BOOM has already checked the facts of several videos of celebs being manipulated by AI to give the wrong political message.

We also checked the truth of an AI voice copy of Congress leader Kamal Nath last week. In it, he can be heard offering Muslims land to build a mosque on and bringing back Article 370.