WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Videos show Muslims complaining about life in Australia.
OUR VERDICT
False. The videos are AI-generated.
AAP FACTCHECK - A foreign-run Facebook page is posting videos appearing to show Muslims complaining about life in Australia, but the clips are AI-generated.
AAP FactCheck has previously debunked the Inside Australia page, which is operated by a user in Sri Lanka, according to Facebook transparency details.
The page regularly posts clips that appear to show immigrants making demands on the Australian government or insisting on receiving special treatment.
A series of recent posts show Muslims complaining about the lack of halal food in Australia.
Halal food complies with Islamic law, specifically animal products.
In one video, a woman eating a chicken sandwich says, "I just bought this chicken wrap and it's not halal".
"There is no clear warning anywhere on the label. Why can't companies just clearly say if it's halal or not? It's not that hard. This needs to change."
Other clips have titles like "Muslim woman complains" or "She's mad because her protein bar is not halal!"
However, the immigrants shown are all AI creations.
One video with more than 1.6 million views shows an interviewer asking a woman in a burka what her biggest challenge has been since moving to Australia, and she responds that "there is too much pork in the shops".
This video, along with many of the others posted by the Inside Australia page, is synthetic.
Using a screenshot from the video to search Google Images reveals it contains a hidden digital watermark indicating it is AI-generated.
In this video, the interviewer's microphone cover also has garbled text reading: "Aus [unintelligible word] report", but does not match any major media organisation's logo.
The background sign at the butcher's shop appears to offer stange products, including "pork lugs" and "shicket".
The page's videos show several other signs of being made by AI, including subjects with oddly smooth skin and clothing and erratic lip-syncing and accents.
One video shows the tell-tale AI sign of gibberish language in the background on a cafe's menu sign, with several items on the right side written in illegible text.
In another video, a woman is holding a burger that suddenly seems to awkwardly go back into a completely unopened package.
A woman holding a protein bar in one video claims "I just ate this" - but the bar packaging clearly hasn't been opened.
A further video shows an interviewee morphing into a completely different woman about halfway through, with larger eyes and bolder eyebrows, as she turns to address the camera.
A protest about fast-food chains not offering halal products at a KFC restaurant appears in another video.
The crowd of protesters can be heard chanting the Arabic expression "wallah", but none of those visible in the clip actually open their mouths.
Screenshots from Inside Australia's synthetic videos have been shared by other Facebook pages, with one post falsely claiming a Muslim woman had "gone viral" after discovering a chicken sandwich she bought "was not halal".
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