WHAT WAS CLAIMED
A video shows Muslim women asking Australians to avoid taking their dogs to the beach.
OUR VERDICT
False. The footage is AI-generated.
AAP FACTCHECK - A video purporting to show Muslim women asking Australians to avoid taking dogs to the beach includes several tell-tale signs that it's AI-generated.
Viewers who watch the video closely may notice a man who appears to turn into a woman, a dog that materialises out of nowhere and another dog that magically transforms into a bag.
The video was published by Inside Australia, a Facebook page that's previously been debunked by AAP FactCheck.
Most of the photos and videos posted by the page appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence (AI).
Inside Australia's public transparency details reveal it is operated by a user in Sri Lanka.
The video in question shows two women wearing Islamic face veils, called niqabs, walking along a beachfront and speaking to the camera about dogs.
"Australia has too many dogs on public beaches. People should avoid bringing them where muslim families come to relax," one woman says in the video.
The second woman says: "They should understand dogs are not accepted in our religion, so it's better to take them to designated dog parks instead of family beaches."
A text caption at the top of the video asks viewers: "If a religion doesn't vibe with dogs, should the whole beach change for them? Or should they find a dog-free spot?"
At the time of writing, the video had more than 800,000 views and more than 10,000 comments.
The tone of the comments suggests many viewers do not realise it is an AI-generated fake.
"You are in Australia. We love dogs," one comment says.
Another comment says, "At first I thought it was a stitch-up. The fact that it's not makes it hilarious."
It is becoming increasingly hard to tell an AI-generated video from a real one.
However, searching Google Images using a screenshot from the video reveals the clip contains a hidden digital watermark indicating it was "Made with Google AI."
Significant visual flaws and errors in this video expose it as a fake.
At the start of the video, a grey dog sits by a wooden bench with its owner.
However, by the end of the video, the dog has inexplicably been replaced by a black bag.
Similar AI hallucinations appear in the background.
At the start of the video, on the right-hand side of the frame, two men walk along the beachfront.
One man is wearing black shorts and a grey singlet, and the other is wearing black shorts and a teal t-shirt.
However, as the video goes on, the man in the grey singlet appears to gradually morph into a woman.
His shorts turn into leggings, he sprouts a ponytail and his watch disappears from his wrist.
Additionally, the same two men begin the video without a dog, but after walking behind the two Muslim women, they mysteriously end up with a black dog on a lead.
Both the man who turns into a woman and the man in the teal t-shirt end the video holding dog leads that they didn't have in the video's early frames.
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